Matt Littler wrote: >Most people that I speak to in this line of work seem to think that >the Monaco Optix is best for LCD's . >I know from experience that it's more accurate on LCD's than my >colourvision spyder pro.
Matt - thanks for your note. The Monaco seems to be very popular. I checked their website, and they have a LOT of different color management solutions, beginning with the basic puck and software and heading off into complete prepress sets with astonishingly high prices - much more than I need. And Neil Barstow wrote: > Hi Phil > > have a look at basICColor Display with their <BasICColor Squid, or the > Gretagmacbeth eye One Monitor (a Spectrophotometer). > > but beware, I'm afraid that any old LCD may not cut it, only some are > suitable for imaging. > Hi, Neil. Thanks also for your comments. I had a look at the Gretag Eye1 - probably about the level of "solution" that I need, very similar to the Monaco unit. I'll have a look at the Squid (love the name...) tonight. My large monitor is a Viewsonic Vp201s, which has the range of controls one would expect from a decent professional-level LCD; I especially like its 3-input feature (DVI-analog, DVI-digital, ordinary analog, all selectable through a switch on the front bevel.) I did a bit of research before purchasing it, and went to see the DTP guy down the hall from me who runs the Apple Cinema display on his system. He's in a different line of business, though, and even though he works on rather large and complicated printed pieces such as catalogs and annual reports, he does not do any formal calibration on his monitor beyond what the Apple OSX system has "built-in." (Excuse my ignorance here, but I've never owned an Apple system other than an ancient, creaky Powermac 7100 I keep on hand "just in case." I ran some informal "tests" on the big panel this afternoon, viewing some final output files I had completed on the older 21" CRT screen. With the monitor controls set for 6500K, default contrast and brightness, the images seemed only a tiny bit more vibrant than they had on the CRT. Most of my editorial clients are perfectly happy with my RGB TIFF's, so conversion is not really an issue thus far. No one is much interested in supplying me with an ICC profile from their printer as of yet. Cheers --- Phil Phil Matt Photography www.philmatt.com 585-461-5977 =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
