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What's the best/most cost-effective way to colour match between printers & on screen display?
We're having a hard time trying to colour match between graphics on screen and print outs.
I know there are hand held devices that measure on-screen colour displays, but can this be used to calibrate printer output?
Paul_r: that's not cost effective when you consider having to do that for every image we print - think about the paper, toner/ink and time wasted in doing that with every image. There's got to be a better way.
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- paul rLv 41 decade agoFavourite answer
the most cost effective way is to print a page with all the colours on, then adjust your screen settings to get the nearest match you can.
otherwise you are into big money.
- 5 years ago
Color laser that does 11x17" for under $300 - I'd say forget it, no such thing. You can get regular color laser that will do up to legal size in the $150-$300 range, but anything large format like 11x17 will always cost 4-5 times the amount of a regular laser, or even more... There are some "used" ones on Ebay in the $600-$900 range, but be careful, most come with no toner, or have some system error code. There are re-conditioned units around in the $1000 range from certain stores.
- 1 decade ago
You might find Adobe Illustrator useful. It's designed with printing in mind and supports CMYK colour (as opposed to RGB), CMYK colour is much better suited to printing.
I'm not sure if this is the angle that you're coming from but I think it will help.
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