ColorPlus

[jimothy]

Picked this up at the weekend. Its a bit of software and a USB monitor scanner that calibrates your monitor correctly so that what you see on screen is in the correct colours (it'll match what gets printed).

I haven't compared my newly calibrated monitors to any print outs yet, but colours certainly look better and brighter, and things I've photographed look a lot close to the originals.

So far, a big thumbs up

[chim_knee]

How much were that then? Easy to do?

Cheers,
Phil

[jimothy]

chim_knee said:

How much were that then? Easy to do? Cheers, Phil

£69.99 from Jessops. It comes with a thingy that you hang over your monitor whilst the software runs. Its a simple click next till it tells you to dangle it, dangle it then wait a few minutes, then click and its done. It creates a new colour profile that you can assign to your monitor.
I ran it on a mac, so I assume on windows its just as easy...

[Bee_Jay]

jimothy said:

Picked this up at the weekend. Its a bit of software and a USB monitor scanner that calibrates your monitor correctly so that what you see on screen is in the correct colours (it'll match what gets printed).

It will only match what is printed if you have profiled your printer...

However at least you know that what you are seeing on the screen is what the computer thinks you are seeing...

>> Edited by Bee_Jay on Monday 13th March 14:59

[ehasler]

Bee_Jay said:

It will only match what is printed if you have profiled your printer...

Not necessarily - some of the print profiles supplied with printers (or from the paper manufacturers) are very good, so you will get a very close match between a calibrated screen and your printer.

[Bee_Jay]

ehasler said:

Bee_Jay said: It will only match what is printed if you have profiled your printer... Not necessarily - some of the print profiles supplied with printers (or from the paper manufacturers) are very good, so you will get a very close match between a calibrated screen and your printer.

Sorry, that is what I meant - I use the Epson and Ilford profiles for my R1800 with excellent results...

[jimothy]

It should in theory also match what gets printed by a comercial printing lab.

[Bee_Jay]

jimothy said:

It should in theory also match what gets printed by a comercial printing lab.

In theory is correct...

I made the same assumption but found out that photobox for example do not use profiles for prints up to a certain size (12" wide if I recall, it's on their site somewhere) - check first.