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After many years of testing and specifying equipment for clients who appreciated an unbiased and well researched opinion it seemed practical to move into also selling equipment and consumables like ink and paper. More information on range and on specific products to come soon for advice, please click here to send email, please provide contact details and a little info. about your needs and Neil Barstow will call you to talk over your requirements

basICColor: Read more about the basICColor range including the ground breaking Display monitor Calibration and Profiling software and how to get a 14 day demo on our basICColor page

ColorBurst RIP: Want to get more out of your Epson inkjet (17“ and up)? read more here about ColorBurst Photo and Proofing RIPs

ColorThink from Chromix: ColorThink from Chromix More about Chromix Colorthink software the Swiss Army knife of ICC profiles.

Eizo Displays: We recommend and sell Eizo. Read more here about Eizo Displays , the ColorEdge range for critical editing and viewing as well as high quality standard displays. Allow us to recommend for your own particular application.

Epson digital imaging: We recommend and sell Epson printers and consumables. Read more here about Epson's medium and large format printers , inks and papers for very high quality fine art printing.

Graphic Technology :: GTI viewing booths and worklighting: Viewing prints and proofs and control of environmental lighting, one of the most important parts of the colour management jigsaw. More on GTI viewing booths here.

Hewlett Packard digital imaging: We recommend and sell HP printers inks and paper. Read more here about HP large format imaging equipment

HutchColor Targets: HCT Targets, the very best way to profile your scanner
More about the Hutchcolor Target range here.

i1 and i1 pro: More on the X-Rite eyeOne range: Display2 and LT Monitor calibration and profiling system and eyeOne pro Spectrophotometer range for Monitor, scanner, digital camera and printer profiling

Profile Verification, with pixl: Interested in away be confident about monitor and printer colour accuracy? Read about our Verification kit here.

X-Rite i1 and i1 pro: More on the X-Rite eyeOne range: Display2 and LT Monitor calibration and profiling system and eyeOne pro Spectrophotometer range for Monitor, scanner, digital camera and printer profiling

Profiling your printer

Making printer profiles can be pretty technical and doing it well involves some costly equipment and extensive research.

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With many CMYK printers (usually those attached to a RIP) a site visit can be very useful. From my experience users rarely get to grips with all the options available inside the rip software, and in many cases the software seems to have been designed with user confusion as a primary aim. Plus, final optimisation of the profile's separation settings whilst making a number of test prints seems almost inescapable when a really great profile is the goal.
Some users understandably want profile making equipment in house, and for some it is very worthwhile. To get the gear that really works at a pro level, though, it's quite a big investment. Scanner based printer profiling (ie no reading device) turns out to be a hiding to nothing. For those on a budget who want to check out lots of different papers, a simple profile the new eyeOne Photo kit, see above - it's a great way to get started out. We have a very special offer for owners of eyeOne Design, Photo and Publish who buy from us, basically, we will make high end profiles from your readings talk to us about it.

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