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Which Monitor Calibrator do you have?
- Thread starter Gilly B
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I'm fairly confident to go ahead and get the GretagMacbeth EyeOne 2. It seems to be older than the Huey or Spyder although going from what i've read it seems a bit more accurate and probably worth it in the long run (i'm sick of all this ink i'm wasting on innacurate prints.)
I've just gone ahead and bought the GretagMacbeth Eye One Display 2. I need to know what I see is what I print, although now I hear about there being different devices for monitor and printer calibration. Does this mean i'll get good monitor accuracy with the device, but it still will result in innacurate printouts? I'm a little confused.
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Eye One Display will not profile your printer for you which is the other part of the equation. The profiles your printer came with can be very good these days if your printer was also a good one. Nevertheless it is not a bad idea to get your own profiles done for your favourite paper and ink combinations. This can be done by a third party as others have suggested or you could get your own print profiler. I use print fix pro which produces better profiles than the ones supplied by Epson for my R2400, particularly in shadow detail.
If you should stray from the safe path and use third party inks or paper in your printer it becomes essential that you get print profiles done.
Although I use the PrintFix Pro suite which includes the Spyder for the screen, having read a lot of reviews I would have recommended the all in one Colormunki which can also measure colour values directly off the subject and which produces print profiles very quickly indeed.