Eye-One LT and EZPrints

tony0778

I'm planning purchasing Eye-One LT to calibrate my HP 2159m LCD monitor. My recent prints were a bit on the dark side of exposure (i.e., the shadows in the viewed image were more "open" than the printed image). I don't plan on printing my own anytime soon and will continue using Smugmug/EZ Prints. With that said...I would certainly appreciate any feedback on the Eye-One LT for my situation.

arodney

First thing you need to do is calibrate the luminance and white point to match the viewing conditions of the print viewing booth:
http://digitaldog.net/files/Print_to_Screen_Matching.jpg

Next you need an ICC output profile to soft proof the output for. And it would be real, real useful if you could actually use the profile to convert to the final output color space, allowing you to pick the rendering intent that produces the best color appearance and perhaps, some minor edits based on this soft proof. Since this lab doesn’t allow this, since you’re stuck sending sRGB, the color management workflow is at best, half baked.

tony0778

Thanks Andrew. I think I understand your comment that when using outside labs, color management is "half baked". Will the Eye-One LT provide feedback on the lumenince and white point issue or do I need another type of calibrater?

arodney

tony0778 wrote:

Thanks Andrew. I think I understand your comment that when using outside labs, color management is "half baked". Will the Eye-One LT provide feedback on the lumenince and white point issue or do I need another type of calibrater?

Check the spec’s on the software. All the hardware is the same but some of the lower end (cheaper) software bundled are somewhat crippled but I suspect you can at least set some preset white point and luminance settings.