Re: Printer needed

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.misc, comp.sys.mac.printing, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Printer needed
Date	2015-03-06 01:16 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<clsdeoFim1dU2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	(2 earlier) <md2g13$tig$1@dont-email.me> <0001HW.D11D3B6C05957CEDB01029BF@news.eternal-september.org> <mda2vj$k29$1@dont-email.me> <0001HW.D11DF24C05C05970B01029BF@news.eternal-september.org> <060320151339380888%YourName@YourISP.com>

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On 2015-03-06, 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.

Exactly. That's not the same thing.

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