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Re: Printer needed

Date 2015-03-07 18:01 -0500
From Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.misc, comp.sys.mac.printing, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Printer needed
References (3 earlier) <0001HW.D11D3B6C05957CEDB01029BF@news.eternal-september.org> <mda2vj$k29$1@dont-email.me> <0001HW.D11DF24C05C05970B01029BF@news.eternal-september.org> <060320151339380888%YourName@YourISP.com> <060320151816472514%YourName@YourISP.com>
Message-ID <FvmdnT3JpOjCHmbJnZ2dnUU7-R-dnZ2d@giganews.com> (permalink)

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On 2015.03.06 00:16 , Your Name wrote:
> In article <060320151339380888%YourName@YourISP.com>, Your Name
> <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
>> In article
>> <0001HW.D11DF24C05C05970B01029BF@news.eternal-september.org>, DaveC
>> <invalid@invalid.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the response, DaveC. I read the guide you reference a long
>>>> time ago and never had good luck calibrating printers or generating the
>>>> relevant color profiles, but I'll give it another go.
>>>
>>> One part of the calibration process is of course calibrating the monitor.
>>> This requires a piece of additional hardware, a small camera, or "eye". You
>>> stick it to the face of the display and it reads the colors put up on the
>>> display by the calibration software.
>>>
>>> One process:
>>>
>>> http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/category.aspx?ca=2
>>>
>>> There are others.
>>>
>>> Good luck.
>>
>> I haven't checked recent version, but Apple used to include a utility
>> to calibrate the display ... although it relied on your own eyes, so
>> was 100% accurate.
> <snip>
>
> Rats! That was a typo - it should have said "it relied on your own
> eyes, so was*n't* 100% accurate".  :-\

Correction not necessary, was clear what you meant to say.

(Says he who has made the same mistake at *least* once before).

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Re: Printer needed DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2015-02-28 14:41 -0800
  Re: Printer needed Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-02-28 23:05 +0000
    Re: Printer needed Fester Bestertester <fbt@fbt.net> - 2015-02-28 21:50 -0800
      Re: Printer needed Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-01 12:22 +0000
        Re: Printer needed dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-03-02 09:22 +1300
          Re: Printer needed Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-01 20:29 +0000
          Re: Printer needed Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-01 23:36 +0000
    Re: Printer needed Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2015-03-02 15:09 -0500
      Re: Printer needed DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2015-03-04 22:45 -0800
        Re: Printer needed Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2015-03-05 12:16 -0500
          Re: Printer needed DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2015-03-05 11:45 -0800
            Re: Printer needed Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-03-06 13:39 +1300
              Re: Printer needed Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-06 01:16 +0000
              Re: Printer needed Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-03-06 18:16 +1300
                Re: Printer needed "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2015-03-07 22:38 +0000
                Re: Printer needed Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2015-03-07 18:01 -0500
              Re: Printer needed Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2015-03-06 11:36 -0500
                Re: Printer needed Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-03-07 09:53 +1300
  Re: Printer needed Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2015-03-01 07:57 -0500
    Re: Printer needed jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2015-03-02 04:01 +1300
      Re: Printer needed sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-03-01 18:09 +0000
  Re: Printer needed Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-03-02 20:12 -0800

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