A3 Printer & Calibration device

[Noise]

Hi

 

we are looking for advise on what A3 printer to purchase and calibration device to help with good quality (as accurate as possible) prints.

 

If anyone has any suggestions, they would be great.

 

thanks

 

N

[Jeff Mottle]

Hi

 

we are looking for advise on what A3 printer to purchase and calibration device to help with good quality (as accurate as possible) prints.

 

I anyone has any suggestions, they would be great.

 

thanks

 

N

 

Any chance you are going to Spain for Mundos Digitales next week? I'm doing a presentation on color management and I will be covering equipment and workflows etc.

 

You'll need a monitor profiler/calibrator, a printer profile (which you could purchase or make yourself, and in an ideal world a small viewing booth.

 

I'd reccomend the following:

 

Eye-One Photo (http://www.gretagmacbeth.com/index/products/products_color-mgmt-spec/products_cm-for-creatives/products_eye-one-photo.htm)

 

This is a spectrophotometer and will allow you profile and calibrate your monitor and if you like, build a printer profile.

 

You should have a viewing booth like this: http://www.gretagmacbeth.com/index/products/products_lighting/products_desklamps-viewing-booths/products_judge-2.htm if color accuracy is really critical. What you are looking for is a booth that can be adjusted to at the very least D50 (5000K) and have an adjustable brightness control dimmer.

 

The Eye-One photo (this is the one I have), will run you about $1250, the proofing booth will cost around $1200. You can get cheaper monitor profilers/calibrators for less, around the $200 mark, but they are only colorimeters, so they can only be used to profile/calibrate your monitor. (Eye-One Display http://www.gretagmacbeth.com/index/products/products_color-mgmt-spec/products_cm-for-creatives/products_eye-one-display.htm) You would not be able to build the printer profiles yourself. There are a lot of places that can build them for you or have generic profiles for your printer/paper/ink combo.

 

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[Noise]

Thanks for that Jeff !