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CRI is not the whole story... I think CRI is the same as RA-index and the Osram Color Proof has a RA-index of 98. That's quite amazing for a fluorescent tube! The light from the fluorescent tubes are much more even and there are no flickering when driven from an electronic reactor. They are also...

Thanks for the proposal! I don´t understand though why this colour is more neutral than NCS 3000? Yes and I'm comparing the Solux halogen lamps with the Osram Color Proof fluorescent tubes. I've just got adapters to the Solux lamps and compared them (two lamps 4700K with black back fed with...

My "light box" will be in a separate part of the room where there has been a sink before. I have to paint the walls and also the table with "neutral gray" not to get coloured reflections. Does anyone have an experience of what colour to use? I have seen recommendations to go to the paint store...

The D-50 ISO 3664:2009 illuminant is the most recent standard for the viewing light in the graphic industries. Light intensity should be about 2000 Lux. Compared to the older standard from 2000 there are more UV-content. When I'm comparing the same picture printed on papers with different...

A very good proposal! That's a good solution if you don't know what to do or don't have anyone with the knowledge that can help you. If you can get the armature with a dimmable electronic reactor then you have to buy a dimmer (a special potentiometer for the 0-10V that comes from the reactor)...

I've just got the armature for the fluorescent tubes. The Osram Color Proof tubes are only available as T8 tubes and it was more difficult than I thought to find a suitable armature. T8 is rather old technology. I bought a cieling mount 4x18W armature from ELG-Leuchten in Germany. They have an...

Follow up: I have ordered a 4x18w armature from here in Sweden. This armature has a rather even output with about 60 degrees angle. There are cheaper alternatives to find on eBay but I don't know how even the output are from them. The armature already has an HFE ballast but I need to be able to...

I know there has been a thread about this before but it ended in January. How many here on the forum evaluate their prints in a standardized environment like the D50? Roger B. uses the Solux bulbs that's supposed to be very good and they seem to be the 'de facto standard' among artists. There is...

On eBay http://www.ebay.de/itm/4x-Tonerkartuschen-fur-Konica-Minolta-Bizhub-C224-C284-C364-C224e-TN321-/251688149226?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_77&hash=item3a99c860ea You can buy cheap refills for the Konica. Cost will be about € 0,01 for the powder + paper cost. Per

For my 3880 I use the cartridges sold by Ink Republic (I think they are available from other sellers also).They are easy to refill and the resetting system also resets the waste ink tank. I refill with Inktec inks. Pharmacist has introduced these cartridges here on the forum. The cost for this...

i1 Display Pro (colorimeter) is very good for profiling monitors. With this instrument I can do a hardware calibration with my Dell U3014. It does only hardware calibrate the Dell U-series monitors with the X-rite software that comes with the monitors. But maybe it's possible to use with other...

Yes I can see now that the 4900 may not be an alternative if you aren't printing regularly (daily) because of this strange clogging issue.

Why doesn't anyone mention the 4900 as an alternative? I know that it's more expensive, heavier and takes more room on the desk. But it has two extra HDR cartridges (green and orange). It takes 200 ml cartridges that means much lower ink costs and makes it unnecessary to use third party ink. It...

I looked at the two profiles with the RC-paper SIHL Masterclass Lustre in the trial version of Gamutvision. One with the command '-f D50M2' in 'chartread' and one without. I'm not sure if this is the correct command to get a standardized FW-compensation without measuring the actual OBA content...

I printed a series of pictures and I couldn't get the colors exactly right as I wanted. I tried to tinker with them in Capture One but I didn't really get it. I came to the conclusion that it was the difficult lighting conditions that made it. I haven't tried to print on a paper without OBA so...

So comes a very obvious question about making profiles from papers with a lot of optical brighternes as I think all RC-papers have. This thread started with making profiles with the Colormunki that has an UV-cut filter. As I've understood it this instrument can't read a part of the blue/violet...

Thank you very much for that clarification! I can see that deltaE is 1.1 and understand that mathematically this is very similar. What I don't understand is what I can see on the screen. What does the different colors and the pattern mean? When I see the view of your profile of a matte paper I...

Can you please tell me what this picture shows and the settings you have chosen!? I don't understand how to interpret it. Probably I will not strive to be a guru of the Gamutvision program but it seems to be a valuable tool for evaluating profiles. I have searched the forum but I can't find a...

I think this way: Of course it's interesting to be able to toogle between different profiles in a softproof (and see if there is any difference). But if I have analyzed a profile in Gamutvision and I can see that this is a good profile. Then I can use it. I can use softproofing as a help. I...

The interesting thing is that this last profile was much easier to make and used much less patches! It also had less gray patches. No I don't have PS and I'm not going to get it. I have other programs though where I can soft proof. I can do most of what I need in Capture One and I can use Gimp...