Yes, and Howard can at no expense other than a little time and energy try a spectrophotometer-based profile for his favorite paper, ink, and paper combination from Steve Upton at CHROMiX.com. If he likes it, I think it's about $100. And so's the next one for another combination. Etc. And he could like a lot of them before it got to the point where he'd have a financial incentive to consider buying for a few thousand dollars what he'd need to roll his own as well. Or so it seems to me. Sam >If you've been reading the list and/or archives you must have seen >many posts on this subject. The prevailing opinion is that flatberd >scanners are not adequate for creating good printer profiles, thus >the need for a spectrophotometer. Using a film scanner with its ICC >profile has no bearing on the fact that flatbed produced profiles >are inadequate. Paul > >HMSDOC@aol.com wrote: > > > >From some of the responses and looking at various reviews, I get >the sense that many people feel that Color Vision's Spyder with >Photo-cal or Opti-Cal is the best option for monitor calibration but >that perhaps Monaco EZ Color is better at making printer profiles >(plus, I think, will also let you profile a film scanner). Is there >any problem 'mixing' systems and getting the Spyder and software for >monitor calibration and the Monaco software, which you can buy >without there colorimeter for printer profiling, or is mixing like >this a problem? > > > > Also, for most of these profiling systems it seems as if to >profile a printer you enter the 'data' into the software via a >flatbed scanner. If my main use of the system is a film scanner (I >have an old HP 6200C flatbed that I don't use very much) is the >printer profile really effective when printing something scanned in >via the film scanner? Does the quality of the flatbed effect the >ultimate printer profile so that it is not adequate or proper for >input from the film scanner? > > > > Howard > > HMSDOC@aol.com - Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions.