From the article: Calibrate Your Monitor
Do you calibrate your monitor, printer, scanner, and digital camera? If not, why not? If so, what methods do you use? Tell us about the color calibration software or tools that you swear by.
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Share Your AdviceX-Rite i1 Display Pro
- I use the X-Rite i1 Display Pro on my screens for color and brightness consistency. It works like a charm.
- —Guest Germanchu
hp laser printer
- My HP laser printer is printing unclear pictures and the red prints pink. Any suggestions?
- —Guest gay latimer
Let Photoshop have control Kodak
- If printing from Photoshop, letting Photoshop control the color settings works very well (I have a Canon iP4300). Also if printing on Kodak photopaper, be sure to look at the info sheet that comes with the paper, or go to the Kodak website, they have a lot of very useful printer-specific info.
- —Amybeader
Free digital camera calibration software
- An open source software to professionally calibrate digital cameras, using large number of targets is available from http://www.nla.gov.au/preserve/dohm/coca.html
- —Guest Andrew Stawowczyk Long
Good Calibration sites
- Google Lagom or Norman Koren you'll get much better results than with Adobe gamma
- —Guest Stve
IT8 calibration freeware
- A free software to professionally calibrate scanners, using IT8.7 targets is available from http://www.nla.gov.au/preserve/dohm/sipc.html
- —Guest Andrew Stawowczyk Long
Calibrate or not?
- Calibrate your monitor for sure. If it's a good CRT and windows you can often get by with just Adobe Gamma for home use. This program comes with Photoshop and other Adobe products. Something very like this is built into the OS X for Macs. If using an LCD or a laptop computer in either win or mac, use an external device to measure and calibrate your monitor. (Adobe gamma just doesn't work well with anything other than a crt). I've used a colormetric sensor like the i1 (eye-one) from X-rite. It is piece of hardware that dangles in front of the monitor and measures various colors via the software component of the package. This also works with crts. It would be ideal to calibrate printers, scanners and digital cameras with a device like this, but could prove costly for home use. For print jobs be aware that the CMYK workflow is very different from the RGB workflow. The range of colors available in CMYK is much smaller than those in RGB. Use Photoshop to convert RGB images to CMYK.
- —a2zprinter
