I've had one or two custom profiles done for oddball papers and had
similar enthusiasm. If the R2400 and Epson profiles for EHM and VFA
weren't so good, I'd have bought the Xrite system a while ago too.
No problems with the Hahnemühle profiles for Photo Rag Smooth 308gsm
or Bamboo 290gsm. What's on the paper is on the screen.
Godfrey
On Jan 17, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
Since I'm facing the prospect of soon needing to make a very high
quality print portfolio, I purchased a Colorvision PrintFix Pro kit
with a hardware paper spectrocolorimeter so I could make my own
custom printer/paper profiles. And all I can say is "Wow! Why didn't
I do this years ago?"
Hahnemuehl's profiles for their Fine Art Pearl paper were awful and
I had to resort to my own trial-and-error profiles (made with
"PrintFix Plus"). I eventually got a reasonable profile, but it took
a lot of time and effort and still left room for improvement. Making
a test print and measuring it with the spectrocolorimeter took about
10 minutes (not including letting the print dry for a day!) and it
nailed a perfect profile. Great black & white prints with no fuss!
Color prints that look like what's on the monitor (as much as a CMYK
image can look like an RGB image). Amazing.
If I'd bought this years ago this set-up would probably have paid
for itself in saved ink and paper by now.
(BTW: I couldn't find the paper profiling hardware/software alone
and so had to buy the kit that included the monitor calibration set-
up, even though I already had that. That's why my Spyder2 monitor
profiling kit is for sale. Still available if anyone's interested.)
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