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  1. Re: Epson has printers with a 'spectroproofer'. Gimmick?

    As the name implies, the SpectroProofer is mainly intended for those printing proofs in a print shop. The in-line spectrophotometer can measure the color bars, or a control strip that is on the same...
  2. Thread: Metallic Paper

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    Re: Metallic Paper

    Red River makes a quality metallic paper at a good price.
    http://www.redrivercatalog.com/browse/photo-metallic-inkjet-glossy-media-paper-metal.html

    But how metallic do you want it? Moab makes...
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    Re: Anyone making backlit inkjet prints?

    Just a quick note to keep in mind when you get to this point: The perception of color seen through a material like this is different from the perception we have reflecting off the surface. For this...
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    Re: Dynamic range of RA4 vs digital pigment print

    Here's a visual demonstration of the difference between the gamuts. The solid mulitcolored form in the middle is a typical RA-4 process gamut using glossy paper. The white wireframe shape is an...
  5. Re: Trying to understand color management for C-prints from LF film.

    People do come at this from different perspectives. The OP is writing from what might be called the "output-centric" point of view, and other posters here have given the justification for the...
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    Re: Data color spider

    Yes, hopefully you are looking at a Spyder3 or the newest one: Spyder4. I would not recommend a Spyder 2 or earlier as they would be pretty old by now, and the internal filters would not be...
  7. Re: Do I need to calibrate my printer every two weeks also?

    Monitors will tend to vary over the course of a month or so. We generally recommend recalibrating a monitor between 2 - 4 weeks.

    Printers will not vary anything close to the way monitors do. So...
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    Re: Used Eizo recommendations?

    If you have ColorNavigator installed, you can open that and choose Help > Monitor information to get the number of hours.

    What happens to old Eizo's is that their backlight gets gradually dimmer. ...
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    Re: Wide Gamut Monitors

    Technically yes. But of course for any display that has the ability to support 10bit color, in order to view 10-bit color depth, you also need to have all the other pieces in place: 10-bit graphics...
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    Re: HP DreamColor LP2480zx -- Comments?

    Here's a review we did of the HP2480 back in 2008 when they first came out. At that time, it was ahead of its time in many ways, has a wide gamut, the backlighting can be changed to any color of...
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    Re: Wide gamut monitor?

    Here's a drawback to getting a wide gamut monitor:
    There is a potential that you could see some banding - visual break up of a gradient with a wide gamut monitor, especially one without internal...
  12. Re: Flat-panel monitors! What's the verdict for 2013?

    In the way of education, there are a number of reviews in the ColorWiki that cover high end NEC's, Eizo's and the like. The ones that I wrote talk about the things you want in a good display from...
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    Re: washed out monitor screen

    If you are viewing this screen with any kind of overhead light shining on it, that will tend to cause your blacks to be washed out. That's why the better displays come with monitor hoods. (They...
  14. Re: Using a LCD/LED screen as light source for contact printing?

    I know some folks at a company in Seattle that 8 years ago invented a high production silver-halide printer that operates something like this. They had a clear LCD that would display an image, and...
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    Re: Wide Gamut Monitors

    And then there are other issues besides color that are factors in high end monitors: angle of view, longevity, uniformity across the screen. If you look at a lower monitor with a smooth gray...
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    Re: Overview of color management in scanning

    Hi Jim,

    If you're already using the scanner to scan your transparencies, my opinion is that you might as well profile your scanner so that your color will be more accurate once you bring it into...
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    Overview of color management in scanning

    Well, I'm doing my part to spread the word about large format. I wrote an article giving a general overview of scanning in a recent newsletter and mentioned this site in the body of the article....
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    Re: New monitor new problem

    We have found that brand-new monitors will lose a bit of brightness during the burn-in period of the first couple months of use. So every 2 weeks or so is certainly in order then. Afterwards, you...
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    Re: ColorEyes Display Pro - fab!

    The CED Pro is good software. It will iterate a single color several times if necessary until it is sure it has a good representation before it moves on. On an old display it could take as long as...
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    Re: Adobe RGB or sRGB???

    Steve Upton had an article a while back that spoke to both sides of this question. While most of us here are "Input Centric" there's a place in the world where some can be "Output Centric":...
  21. Re: Elevator Digital... Silver Gelatin Fiber prints from Digital Files!

    Inkjets will give you a wide gamut if you are into a lot of saturated color. But for B & W, this is where silver halide processing has a great advantage still. The image is made by exposing onto...
  22. Re: Profile Screw Up between Photoshop and Lightroom

    Your PS settings don't include what's under the "More Options" button. There's a setting there for "desaturate monitor by..." You should make sure that is not checked.

    Have you confirmed that...
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    Re: Monitor Calibration--Again

    To answer your question about 8-bit video cards I risk giving you more information than you want to know....!
    There's been a movement afoot for a couple of years to try to get true 10-bit color from...
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    Re: Monitor Calibration--Again

    Rick,
    X-Rite makes available an "i1Diagnostic" program that will walk your i1D2 through its paces and give you a report on whether it passes or fails. It's sometimes rather generous, in that it...
  25. Re: new Canon Pro9500 Mark II's at $200 after instant & mail-in rebates at B&H

    We have made many custom profiles for these Pro9500MkII's and the color gamut you can get using quality papers is quite large. The printing quality is very good, and it's capable of producing some...
  26. Thread: Paper problems

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    Re: Paper problems

    In our profiling service, I have found that Red River's Ultra Pro Gloss has a very large gamut - among the largest we have seen.
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    Re: Monitors (Again, I know)

    The SpectraVision and the Datacolor software will be fine on the same system (although you should not have them running at the same time.) SpectraVision will only calibrate the NEC displays it is...
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    Re: Monitors (Again, I know)

    Peter,
    Just a small correction. The NEC-branded device they recommend is not an i1Pro but a re-branded i1 Display 2 - and I think you are perfectly fine using your Spyder 3 with that software.
    ...
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    Re: Why don't two calibrated monitors agree?

    I think Tim's on the right track in finding a solution here. Our eyes are just so very good at discerning differences in color when viewing two things side by side. Frank, I'd like to see you try...
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    Re: Grinding your own matte iMac screen

    Sounds like a fascinating project to me. Perhaps no one here is into serious astronomy and grinding their own mirror glass? (I'm not, though I've seen those that are.) That's where I would go to...
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    Re: Where'd my new icc profile go?

    There are several workarounds for this Lion user folder issue here:
    http://www.colorwiki.com/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Lion_Color_Management_Migration_Tool#Hidden_User_folder_workarounds
  32. Re: How Long for Ink to Dry Before Handling Print?

    This will naturally depend on how much ink is on the page; if you have a very saturated print or not. Dry time will also be affected if you're printing through a RIP that has been optimized to give...
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    Re: Projector recommendations - mac compatible

    This article I did is a bit dated now because there are newer versions of DLP projectors that might be better than what we tested, but you might some useful info here:...
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    Re: Monaco EZ Colour useful?

    If you want to work within the scanner's working gamut then that's okay. It's just useful to know that if you have your images in AdobeRGB working space, a typical scanner profile will constrain...
  35. Re: Best proofing paper with Photo Black ink for Epson 4900?

    If you are using this paper for proofing, you might find this recent article useful:
    http://www.colorwiki.com/wiki/I_LUV_UV

    New standards concerning matching proofs to press in light booths are...
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    Re: B&W IT8 Targets for Profiling

    A good quality profile made with a color IT8 will allow your image in Photoshop to be properly corrected when the profile is assigned to the image. At that point you can choose from several methods...
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    Re: Monaco EZ Colour useful?

    Oh, the Optix device (DTP94) is an excellent device. It's still being made, years after X-Rite officially discontinued it, because it is so good - and 3rd party software makers still demand it. ...
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    Re: Monaco EZ Colour useful?

    I would recommend against using this for printer profiles. When you think about it, if you use the scanner to measure a profiling target, you'll be making a printer profile that is limited by the...
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    Re: Do you really get both monitors perfect?

    "...see it sort of "wash" from green to magenta across a single screen..."

    This is the key point here. What you are describing is non-uniformity in the screen, where one section of the panel is...
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    Re: Color prints directly onto glass?

    Hi Chris,

    We've made profiles for Dave White of Aesthetic Tile Imaging. I guess there's no mention of printing on glass on the website that I can see, but I know Dave has been experimenting with...
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