From: "gary" <gsellani@accesscom.com> Subject: RE: color profiling <snip> What would be nice would be a company that rented the hockey puck since once you developed a profile, how often would you use the puck? Or is the puck just for monitors? Getting back to the Epson printer profiles, you would think that they would supply the best profiles since it is their printer. --------------------------------------------------- The calibration hardware (puck) is for use with the monitor. But it is not a one time deal, you need to check/recalibrate/reprofile your monitor every now and then. Yeah, you would think Epson would provide the best profiles they could. (Maybe there already are doing that? If so, they and we are in a bunch of trouble.) And you would also expect them to keep their printer drivers up to date with the new papers that are introduced. Or at least provide a new profile for the new papers (they did do that with the new Colorlife paper). And you would expect them to have consistent quality with their inks when they start getting them from different suppliers. And you would expect them to admit when things don't work as they should and try to quickly do something to solve the problems-the notorious "orange shift" problem is one of several that comes to mind. BUT THEY DON'T. They're too busy introducing new models to support the older ones. Kinda' getting tired of it. Warmest Regards, Carl Grohs, Jr. Design Directions Eden, NC Good scan info site: www.scantips.com List archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scan - Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions.