Printer calibration under Lion

JonathanRyan · 1 Dec 2011

So I just decided to make a lovely fine art colour print on some A3 paper and I found that Monaco Ezycolor won't run under Lion.

I've used this for a few years with different papers producing profiles for each one. It won't work in Lion and there are no upgrades

What is everybody else using? What do you recommend?

POAH · 1 Dec 2011

buy a PC lol

spyder 3 print studio

JonathanRyan · 1 Dec 2011

POAH said:
buy a PC lol

And that would prevent software incompatibilities when upgrading operating systems....? They really have changed since XP then....

POAH said:
spyder 3 print studio

Thanks - looks like that or Colour Munki ATM. I'll see which gets reduced first.

In other news - I ran the print without calibration and let the printer do its own thing. GORGEOUS print....

POAH · 1 Dec 2011

colormonki is pants TBH

scraggs · 2 Dec 2011

POAH said:
colormonki is pants TBH

It is, would you care to elaborate as to why you think it's pants ?
I tested one a while back and although it was the design version for someone who wants easy calibration of monitors & printers it's very quick and simple and produces fairly decent results imo

POAH · 3 Dec 2011

cause its not as good as spyder thats why

snappingsam · 3 Dec 2011

The same issue effects the Gretag i1....

scraggs · 3 Dec 2011

POAH said:
cause its not as good as spyder thats why

Oh well you certainly elaborated on that :shrug:
I thought being as you seem to know quite a bit about profiling it would be helpful to people trying to make a choice between the two.

POAH · 3 Dec 2011

scraggs said:
Oh well you certainly elaborated on that :shrug:
I thought being as you seem to know quite a bit about profiling it would be helpful to people trying to make a choice between the two.

colour cast issues with colormunki and the profiling has less patches too

Chappers · 4 Dec 2011

Jonathan

I have the same problem with Lion. I have a couple of apps that wont run on it.. Seems they are PPC coded and with no Rosetta Stone they wont run. I reverted back to Snowy and all is well with the world. To be honest I am having problems in seeing any significant adavatage for me to go to Lon at the moment

snappingsam · 4 Dec 2011

I have stayed on leopard for that very reason - the pro version of the gretag software that we use is £1500 to upgrade.... no thanks - I'm happy with ProfileMaker5....

I'll perhaps add another Mac running Lion for all the admin - but the imaging beast will stay stuck in leopard for some time...

JonathanRyan · 4 Dec 2011

Thanks.

@David - you don't need another Mac, just another disk. You can have one bootable system per disk (including FW EHDs) and just hold down the option key when you boot to choose which one to use today.

I'm starting to wonder if I can install Leopard / Snow Leopard under VMWare just like I do with XP. Then I could have a window for running Rosetta apps in.

In the meantime, I've noticed that all the paper I need to calibrate is from Permajet and if I send chart prints to them they will email a profile for free. Which is nice....