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Getting consistent colors from different Tektronix / Xerox printers
Hello,
We are looking for a solution which would allow us to get printouts from our printers which are more or less consistent with the images we see on the screen. For now we have no color calibration solution at all. Our setup is following: 3 x Windows based Workstations with Dell 2001FP Monitors, Tek / Xerox 750 DX, 780 Plus and 850 DP Phaser printers and a wide range of software, anything from normal office applications through custom DB design tools to Photoshop & Illustrator. The unlucky thing is that although all printers come from the same company, the printouts using the ICC profiles provided with them and identical driver settings (TekColor is off in all cases) are very different in colors. 750 produces rather light images, 780 rather dark and 850 is closest to what we see on display but is still quite off. Should not the ICC profiles supplied by manufacturer for those professional grade printers (At least 750DX and 780P can be considered professional units) offer at least more or less consistent results? Also, if we disable ICC and rely on printer's own TekColor correction mechanisms, prints improve a little (Especially with sRGB setting) but are still far from being similar to each other and screen. Is the dedicated color calibration solution the only way to go? And if yes, which would suit our needs? So far I have found 3 which would fit in our budget: Monaco Optix XR + EzColor Bundle + good scanner ColorVision SpectroPRO Suite Gretag Eye-One Photo Suite The problem is: I have no clue which one would fit best to our environment, firstly most of them are targeting Inkjets, while our printers are Laser / Solid Wax, secondly I have read very contradictory opinions about ezColor, some say it is good, others claim that all "Scanner-Based" tools are useless because of poor scanners. ColorVision products seem to be old and Gretag Eye-One Photo claims to profile RGB printers only. Please help, I am lost Best Regards Kirill ------------------------------------------------- When replying via E-Mail, please remove duplicate "@" from the address. Bitte bei einem Antwort via E-Mail zweites "@" aus E-Mail addresse entfernen! ------------------------------------------------- |
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Getting consistent colors from different Tektronix / Xerox printers
I have written a Monitor calibration system with the sequel imaging probe,
and using the xyz space as the invariant space, and I use postscript mode to pull out the xyz color directly out on HP and many hi end printer models, sounds the results are way behind what we expect. HP hi end ink give a better result thatn the Xerox wax, generally, I feel I can get a 70% satisfaction on the color consistancy btw monitor and hi end printers. "Kirill Ponazdyr" wrote in message ... Hello, We are looking for a solution which would allow us to get printouts from our printers which are more or less consistent with the images we see on the screen. For now we have no color calibration solution at all. Our setup is following: 3 x Windows based Workstations with Dell 2001FP Monitors, Tek / Xerox 750 DX, 780 Plus and 850 DP Phaser printers and a wide range of software, anything from normal office applications through custom DB design tools to Photoshop & Illustrator. The unlucky thing is that although all printers come from the same company, the printouts using the ICC profiles provided with them and identical driver settings (TekColor is off in all cases) are very different in colors. 750 produces rather light images, 780 rather dark and 850 is closest to what we see on display but is still quite off. Should not the ICC profiles supplied by manufacturer for those professional grade printers (At least 750DX and 780P can be considered professional units) offer at least more or less consistent results? Also, if we disable ICC and rely on printer's own TekColor correction mechanisms, prints improve a little (Especially with sRGB setting) but are still far from being similar to each other and screen. Is the dedicated color calibration solution the only way to go? And if yes, which would suit our needs? So far I have found 3 which would fit in our budget: Monaco Optix XR + EzColor Bundle + good scanner ColorVision SpectroPRO Suite Gretag Eye-One Photo Suite The problem is: I have no clue which one would fit best to our environment, firstly most of them are targeting Inkjets, while our printers are Laser / Solid Wax, secondly I have read very contradictory opinions about ezColor, some say it is good, others claim that all "Scanner-Based" tools are useless because of poor scanners. ColorVision products seem to be old and Gretag Eye-One Photo claims to profile RGB printers only. Please help, I am lost Best Regards Kirill ------------------------------------------------- When replying via E-Mail, please remove duplicate "@" from the address. Bitte bei einem Antwort via E-Mail zweites "@" aus E-Mail addresse entfernen! ------------------------------------------------- |
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