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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Printer needed
Date: 6 Mar 2015 01:16:08 GMT
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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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