Printer Calibration, Spyder or colormunki

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Hi Everyone,

on this lovely hot summers day i'm being a little geeky and more concerned about my printers colours.

i have a fuji ask2000 dyesub that pretty much prints perfectly on standard settings
an olmec op900 dyesub that looks terrible
and an epson r3000 inkjet that i can't get to look as good as the fuji. (have been using lyson inks with this)

does anyone know if i get a printer calibrator it will match up all three printers to give the same colours? as i print 6x9 on dyesub and 10x8 on epson that go out to the same customer, my customers tend to pick up on even the slightest of colour differences...

being old skool i have played with the colours manually, but can't seem to manage perfection...

at the moment i've been looking at either a spyder or colormunki?

Please let me know your thoughts...

Thanks
Shau
 
its not whether the spectrophotometer or densitometer can read what your printing.
what you need is the software that can do a device link profile, i tend to use profilemaker but this might be too much of an investment for what you need.

essentially what you will be doing is getting the best possible gamut from each of your devices and then reducing the gamut to match as closely as possible your worst gamut map.

this is not as bad as it sounds as long as your devices are all in a general CMYK/LC/LM ink set, if you have any that are hifi colour, i.e. OG or VO (orange green/violet orange) then its not going to be fun.

run a profile for each device using the IT8 7.3 targets and work from there.
 
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