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Printer Calibration question….
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I got a new printer last week, its nothing special, but our old one was broken so we picked up this one. Its a Lexmark X5470. All the usual, scanner, printer, copy, fax.
I tried to print a black and white pic yesterday, but I kpet getting a fairly strong green colour cast. Now Im nearly positive my screen is properly calibrated because Ive posted lots of black and whites online and ive never heard anyone complain of colour casts.
So I need a solution. Any ideas?
I dont really wanna calibrate my monitor to the printer because then everything I post online will be off!
You probably need to have a printer profile made for the printer you now have using the paper you use.
jb7 wrote:
Looks like there’s gonna have to be some collaboration alright :D
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……damn it. you know what i meant!
Printer calibration yocks cost about ?4-500.
Before you rush out and buy one there’s an article here that might help.
http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/colorcalibration/a/cal_printer.htm
PeteTheBloke wrote:
Printer calibration yocks cost about ?4-500.
Before you rush out and buy one there’s an article here that might help.
http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/colorcalibration/a/cal_printer.htm
Haha, i wasnt rushing.
Thanks for the link!!!
Just been doing a bit of research. Apparently the Gretag Macbeth is the world’s best kit for the job (don’t take my word for it. though).
http://www.inspirationalarts.ie deals with it.
To get a profile printer ICC which you can use in Photoshop checkout http://www.colourmanagement.net.
You download a couple of files with you print out and sed back to them. They then sent you your very own custome printer profile.
Cost about $100 to ?100.Ink Jet Printers – particularly cheaper ones cannot do great black and white, in general
Most of them will give some form of colour cast
The downside to the profiling where you send it away is in an ideal situation you need to re-do it with every ink change and with every paper change
The cheapest solution is to do some experimentation and adjustment, and keep saving your adjustments as a preset in the print driver
if you want to print B&W a lot, get one of the printers supported by one of the B&W ink manufacturers, lyson or permajet to mention a couple
they will sell you black only set of cartridges, ie tones of black in place of colours
the results can be really stunning
insperational arts mentioned earlier do the lyson one i belive
but they mainly tend to be for the popular printers like the epsons 1290, 1800, 2400 etc
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