color calibration + printer?
- Started
- Last post
- 1 Response
- scoops
Hey, any one have any recommendations for affordably getting my printer and screen to be a little more consistent?
Basically, we used to have a color laser just for proofing, and the colors of the prints we reasonably close enough to show to a client.
We got a new printer, and now the blacks and color saturation is way off. If I show them to a client they're going to come back and say that we need to lighten up the images. Problem is, my monitor is still calibrated to the press, so I don't want to mess with that.
I saw the Spyder3 Studio, but $500+ seems like a lot to have to ask my boss for so that our cheap proofs look good again.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
- stewart0
this has nothing to do with your monitor profile.
calibrate your printer and use that profile to print (long story short).if you don't have a calibrator now, how did you accurately calibrate your display then?
if you want to proof your images on screen with the printer profile, that's also a different story. but also a silly one.
good luck!