Profiling Software needed

[contrakid]

I want to start making my own icc profiles for my epson printer and poss my printing press to use with my Heidelberg Printready system.

I have a eye-one and i also have a spectrolino - spectroscan from a previous company but do not currently own any profile making software.

Can anyone advise what the best and cheapest software route would be so i can produce files that would work with the Heidelberg inbuilt Colour Proof Pro. (think thats what it is).

Hopefully it would run on Apple osx


Cheers all

[TerryWyse]

"Best" and "Cheapest" don't go hand-in-hand.

Two options......

1) Get X-Rite i1Profiler....you can use your EyeOne Pro with it directly or you can use the Spectrolino/Spectroscan with the free ColorPort Utility to take measurements and import into i1Profiler.

2) Download the (free) X-Rite ColorPort Utility for creating and measuring your profiling charts for either of your spectros.....send the measurement data off to someone that offers a profiling service....it would take quite a few trips to the profiling service before it would pay you to get your own profiling software.

Regards,
Terry

[Ozkan Hangisi]

Best solution together with Color Proof Pro is Heidelberg Color Toolbox profiling software. It has also very usefull proof correction option. When you have mismatch problem just use this option. 1 or max 2 times correction is enough to get very accurate color values. It is not that cheap but worth it.