It's not a bad guess. All we can hope to do is to get our own equipment calibrated to produce the best results. If other people haven't calibrated theirs, of course we can't expect the same results when we use their equipment. Even if they have done their own calibration, chances are good that it won't exactly match ours. Good pro labs that do digital work, however, CAN be expected to have calibrated their equipment at least as well as we have and results from them should be very good. At least, that's what I have experienced in usage, so far.
I have more problems keeping my junk in sync than I should have, but I haven't invested in all the calibration equipment yet. I adjust by eyeball to get the prints to look like what I see on the monitor. I've recently been trying a different approach. I've been making a straight print and then adjusting my monitor to look as much like the print as I can. Hopefully, when I do color corrections in PhotoShop, the printer output will still look like what I saw on the monitor. I don't have a scanner and my cameras seem to work well as long as I pay attention to white balance, and as long as my exposures don't blow out the highlights. There may be a niche for a traveling van with excellent color calibration equipment to sell those services to labs and studios on a regular basis. At least they'd all be calibrated to the same standards. Hmmmm... Len --- -----Original Message----- From: Chris Brogden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 12:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Interesting inkjet printer On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, William Robb wrote: > What am I missing? > Thanks > Bill If I could hazard a guess, I'd say that it's the ability to sync your colours with those of other people. If you calibrate your own scanner, monitor and printer to match each other, that's great, but what happens when you need to print it on someone else's printer or edit it on another monitor? I believe colour profiles provide a standard of reference that, if followed by others, will let you achieve identical and predictable results on equipment that's not your own. Of course, that's just a random guess, but if it ain't that way, then it should be. So there. :) chris - - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
