[argyllcms] Re: New to CMS - looking for advice on device to use with argyllcms

  • From: Mike Peters <mike@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 00:24:05 +0000

On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 15:32:26 -0700
Ben Goren <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2010 Jan 3, at 7:11 AM, Mike Peters wrote:
> 
> > I'm currently looking into Colour Management for the first time and
> > I'm looking for some pointers regards which device to purchase.
> 
> Give some serious thought into saving up for the ColorMunki. It will
> let you profile your printer, at which point you can get great prints
> from it while using pretty much any kind of paper and ink that will
> physically work. You can either go the cheap route and get excellent
> results with off-brand papers and ink, or you can go the high-end
> route and print with wide gamut third-party inks on exotic papers.
> All on the printer you have right now or any el-cheapo inkjet you
> might choose to replace it with.

I'll bear that in mind, but I think most of my budget for the year will
go on lenses :)

> 
> > Also any pointers to an idiots guide to Colour Management on Linux
> > would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> It's awfully hard to beat this:
> 
>     http://www.argyllcms.com/doc/ArgyllDoc.html
> 

I'll have to have a proper read of that.

Thanks.

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Mike
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