RE: Monaco EZ Color

["David Cardinal" <djc@calicotech.com>]

My experience has been more positive than Donna's, although it's pretty
clear to me that EZColor is no panacea.  I've used it in three ways:

* Profiling my EX & 1200 for the standard OEM inks, with several different
papers.

  This worked very well, in the sense that I was able to print "snappier"
pictures
  with the EZColor profiles, and it didn't require any changes to the way I
work.

* Profiling Luminos Archival (Platinum) inks & papers on my EX.  I had no
choice on this
  one, since the Platinum inks have different gamuts & profiles than the OEM
inks, and
  there are none supplied.  In that light the EZColor profiles were "okay",
but had some
  real issues, around reds for example.  The real culprit might be the ink
gamut, but
  EZColor doesn't help me deal with that (no preview tools or separation
tables generated
  so that I could "cheat" and preview in Photoshop).

* Profiling the Fujix printers at Imagers.com.  I wish they provided a
profile, but they
  don't.  Their service & turnaround is wonderful, so I decided to build my
own profile.
  I'm sure it's not as good as what they could do with pro tools, and they
could keep 
  theirs up to date more effectively, but it was _much_ better than the hit
& miss
  system I was using before to color correct before sending to them.  I've
reduced my
  reprinting costs & time substantially.

Hope this helps.--dave c.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Dowsett [mailto:mikey.d@ihug.co.nz]
> Sent: Sunday, July 11, 1999 10:47 PM
> To: epson-inkjet@leben.com
> Subject: Monaco EZ Color
> 
> 
> Has anyone had any experience with Monaco Ez Color, good or 
> bad, that they
> would like to share with me. I'm thinking of buying the above 
> software and
> would really appreciate any feedback that anyone has. Is 
> there any similar
> color management software out there that you could recommend?
> Thanks in adavance, the ever present but never full,
> 
> Mike.
> 
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