Y'know, I'm just not happy with the monitor profile I get with the
Pantone Huey. It seems right, but then I get the print out of the
Epson 4800 and they don't match up. So far I've been getting by
because I understand that when I get too frisky with things like
saturation and shadow/highlight, what comes out of the printer is
going to be more exaggerated than what's on the screen. Most of the
time Kentucky windage is okay, and gives good results, but there are
times and prints when I need to put the cross-hairs right on the
heart. And as all good snipers know, trial and error seldom leads to
the intended result.
It's not that far off, it's just not quite there.
The monitor is an Apple 23" cinema, bought in December. The Huey was
bought shortly after it came out. The printer is profiled with
Enhanced Mat, Matte Black Ink for the 4800, and Photoshop handles all
the color management stuff, just as recommended by the pros.
I've thought it might be the LCD. I never can decide on which level
of brightness works best. And then there's the fact that looking at
an image on the LCD gives all the appearance of looking at a really
big slide on a light box. CRTs aren't quite that dramatic. That said,
I love the Apple display, and I love the fact that the working size
of the image on the screen (in horizontal aspect) is roughly 11x15
inches, which is quite a bit larger than the native E-1 (Olympus
Content!) image.
Reading the tales of others who apparently have flawlessly calibrated
monitors, who pull prints from them indistinguishable from what they
see on the screen, leads me into pits of self-loathing and
depression. I want to be able to say that, too, and I'm not yet ready
to acknowledge that what I'm reading from others might be flights of
delusion or at least fancy. I'm fairly confident that perfection is
not an option. <g>
--Bob Whitmire
www.bobwhitmire.com
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