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digital printing

  • 30-04-2008 2:08pm
    #1
    aliceck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭


    Hi guys
    I'm fairly new to all this digital camera business.
    Could anyone tell me if there are computer program's out there which synchronise your printer with your camera. Some colours in my canon printer aren't comming out as they look on screen?

    Maybe I'm jus crap!


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  • #2
    snellers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 465 ✭✭snellers


    you can purchase something called a monitor calibrator - it basically measures the ambient light in your room, the colours on the monitor....etc...etc and 'corrects' the monitor so that it displays colours truer and much closer to their appearance when you print. (there are many many reasons why colours appear different however assuming you are just wanting to get a 'fairly decent' reproduction of the screen out of a 'regular' printer then this should make the most difference. (you should of course use manufacturers brand inks and decent paper fit for purpose...don't cut corners here)

    the cheapest of these calibrators will set you back about 80 - 90 euros and will do a reasonably good job although professionals will spend 10 times this (and more) not only calibrating the monitor but the printer and camera as well as profiling papers...etc.

    Manufacturers of these include: Gretag Macbeth (eye one), Colorvision (Spyder) and Pantone (Huey).
    In advance of going for any of these manufacturers or any other you could try a software colour correction tool that you can obtain from Adobe (I believe it's free from their site and called Adobe Gamma). Whilst this won;t be nearly as good as a hardware solution it may suffice for your needs - you could try this out before parting with cash


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