Photobox Colour Matching

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Hi,

I am planning on producing a gift book / portfolio for someone, to give it the professional look I am going to use photobox.co.uk. Can any one recommend how I ensure my colours are in sync with the colours they will be using?

Currently what I see on my screen is very close to what my printer achieves, and I would liek to be able to replicate the photobox colours.

thanks for any help and advice

Rob
 
I think you can request a test print from them - without messing around with profiles etc and with the aid of a calibrator, I think this would be the easiest and probably the most effective way to insure you get what you want
 
Bob, if you send me your email address I will send you the Photobox printer profiles (gloss and matte) that you can use with Photoshop if that is any help.
 
I bought myself a spyder 2 express last week and after using that combined with the printer profiles the prints are spot on.

Thanks for all your suggestions and help.

Rob
 
Or you can ask them to send you a colour match chart.. its a 6x4 glossy photo then you go on their site and match up the colours of the monitor with the card. Mine are perfect.
And my phoshop prints out perfectly too......more luck than judgement as my previous printer was hell... but the canon pixma is great.
 
Doesn't changing your monitor to match the print defeat the point of calibrating your monitor?
 
I think it does Kev :thumbs:
I calibrated my monitor not so long ago after some advice here. Looked much better. Didn't even realise it was out tbh.
Got the Photobox calibration print today and to get anywhere near it I have to darken the screen back to where it was before I calibrated it.
So I conclude from that that they need prints a fair bit brighter than we would see them on a calibrated monitor for them to print out OK.
But having said that the prints I got today weren't really darker(enough to worry over) than the prints I made myself. These were just 6x4s though and did have a slight warm colour cast on soem of them.

Wonder what others have found on this!
 
Yeah sorry Chris, I've read that.
I meant regarding the calibration print side of things and how effective it was.
 
Hi,

Just a quick comment regarding photobooks. I've recently used several companies following a wedding/honeymoon & to be honest was disappointed with the quality of the PHOTOBOX book - they use "silky" paper & the images lacked some contrast.

I've had exactly the same images printed in a photobook by BONUSPRINT & was much happier with the results - photos are printed on glossy paper & wer visually much better.

One more tip - "linen" binders tend to wear easily so I'd recommend the "leather look" instead

simon
 
Ratty said:
Yeah sorry Chris, I've read that.
I meant regarding the calibration print side of things and how effective it was.
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Ah no worries Ratty my mistake
 
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