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Save me from my Printing Hell
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jb.. that’s what I thought too… but then I read the instructions… 16 shades… I can see 16 shades even though the last 4-5 are all black.
Same as Jb7, when I look at the strip on this site then the last 5 boxes are a solid lump of black. When I look at the strip on the ephotozine site I can clearly make out 16 boxes of different shades. And my monitor is calibrated??
Any ideas?
Its not an image, its some html.
Hmmm, looks like the last box is much wider than the other 15… so the ones you think all 100% black are.I’ll take a look and fix, cheers.
OK, should look much better now. I need to stick a box around it so that the first white box is ‘visible’
Where’s it gone? I don’t see anything and I’m not taking the pith…I have my monitor turned on.
I don’t see any grayscale strip at the bottom of the page, using Safari. Just ‘Please calibrate your monitor so you can see..’
John – I’ve only encountered that Huey Pro system once before – a workshop student had it and was trying to get their monitor calibrated. After going through the process a couple of times I couldn’t even come close to a decent calibration, the screen was way too bright – very similar to your experience. I’d say that is your problem. This is assuming you’re using the correct printer profile and that you have the correct paper type set up in your printer. And of course that you have printer colour management turned off in the printer driver.
What Steve says about your monitor needing to be dark is true, but the calibration process should make it clear how dark it should be, no guesswork required.
My advice is to return the Huey and get something else instead. I use a DTP94 and ColorEyes Display Pro (http://www.integrated-color.com). That’s regarded as the most accurate system on the market (or was a couple of years ago anyway). I can’t vouch for other systems as I’ve not used them much, but I think the Colorvision Spyder is decent, as is the Eye-1.
If you’re looking for something that will allow you to create custom printer profiles too, then the ColorMunki would be the one to go with. A bit more expensive, but you get both types of profiling in one device. http://www.colormunki.com/
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
PeterThanks Peter… I had already decided to bin the Huey and once pay day strikes a new calibrater will be ordered.
John
Isn’t it great when you can make code changes on the fly… no UAT, user sign off, I.T. sign off, SOX controls, Change Management Board approval… ah…
:)
Well you can see the results of not testing it before it went live! :)
Usually I test all changes on a test domain first before rolling out.Only thing is that the test domains I have contain a version of the site running as a
a portal and the second with a version of php3. Don’t even ask about those :DWe spend more time on the paperwork these days than the development.
As for the SOX stuff… you add a field to a form and you have to type on the change management form:
#1
In order to test this change I will ensure that the field is correctly added to the form and functions correctly.#2
I checked that the field was correctly added to the form and functions correctlyt.Ahh… you have to wonder, you really do.
Anyway… thanks to everyone for their input. It’s been a useful thread. A new calibrator will be ordered, the screen will get sorted and I’m now up to speed on the correct print settings… so a bit learned which is always good.
nfl-fan wrote:
UAT, user sign off, I.T. sign off, SOX controls, Change Management Board approval… ah…
Scary how parallel our jobs appear to be! I come on here to get away from all that stuff. It wasn’t like that in the old days.
As for the greyscale strip … a worthy addition to the site – although not sure if it is a monitor test or an eye test.
Heh. Yes, I too come from the land of change management. Glad I left all that behind.
I can see the strip now, an on my (calibrated) displays I can see all the shades clearly.
Cheers,
Peter
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