Colour Gear Index:

color-solutions ::: basICColor

Read more about the ground breaking Display 4 monitor Calibration and Profiling software (completely rewritten from the ground up in v4) and how to get a 14 day demo on our basICColor page
basICColor products includeScan+, a capable scanner profiling application, as well as the excellent Control, for proof validation. More here: basICColor

X-Rite eyeOne

More on the X-Rite eyeOne Display2 Monitor calibration and profiling system

More on eyeOne Spectrophotometer range for Monitor, scanner, digital camera and printer profiling

ColorBurst RIP

Read more about the excellent ColorBurst Photo and Proof RIPs

ColorThink from Chromix

Read more about the excellent Chromix Colorthink software
the Swiss Army knife of ICC profiles.

Profiling your printer:

Making printer profiles can be pretty technical and doing it well involves some costly equipment and extensive research.

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With many CMYK printers (usually those attached to a RIP) a site visit can be very useful. From my experience users rarely get to grips with all the options available inside the rip software, and in many cases the software seems to have been designed with user confusion as a primary aim. Plus, final optimisation of the profile's separation settings whilst making a number of test prints seems almost inescapable when a really great profile is the goal.
Some users understandably want profile making equipment in house, and for some it is very worthwhile. To get the gear that really works at a pro level, though, it's quite a big investment. Scanner based printer profiling (ie no reading device) turns out to be a hiding to nothing. For those on a budget who want to check out lots of different papers, a simple profile the new eyeOne Photo kit, see above - it's a great way to get started out. We have a very special offer for owners of eyeOne Design, Photo and Publish who buy from us, basically, we will make high end profiles from your readings talk to us about it.

GTI viewing booths:

Viewing prints and proofs is perhaps one of the most important, but seldom properly considered parts of the colourmanagement jigsaw.
More on GTI viewing booths here.

Profile Verification:

Interested in away be confident about monitor and printer colour accuracy?
Read about our Verification kit here.

Targets:

HCT Targets, the best way to profile your scanner

Read more about Hutchcolor Targets here.

X-Rite eyeOne

More on the X-Rite eyeOne Display2 Monitor calibration and profiling system

More on eyeOne Spectrophotometer range for Monitor, scanner, digital camera and printer profiling

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