Painful Frustration calibration

[ab4185]

Hey guys i got a question for any of the pro's out there.

I'm using a cintiq and its great but danmed if i cant get it to look any good with the colours.

I deal alot with print media these days and im wondering if anyone knows a thing or two about how i could calibrate it better.

Does anyone use those calibration devices at all or is it as big of a waste of money as it seems on the face of it all?

The frustration of not being able to have anythign look right in print is killing me and more importantly its gogin to start killing my freelance buisness.

if anyone knows of any awesome software or devices or anythign please let me know.

cheers

[teho]

What software do you use?
For accurate color you need to buy or rent eye-one display 2 colorimeter and calibrate all your displays for sRGB color space. No matter what software you're using, always make a cmyk soft proof test with your printer's color profile before printing to check colors, the best way to do it in photoshop. But sometimes the colors could be wrong, because sRGB color space is smaller, than your printer's space, the best way to check colors before printing on wide gamut monitors. Cintiq is sRGB monitor btw (not wide gamut). Hope it helps.

[ab4185]

Hey man thanks for the reply but wat do you mean by "wide gamut monitors" and would one of those colorimetres work on a cintiq?

[teho]

I recommend you to check X-Rite Eye-One Display 2 colorimeter, I used it for cintiq and it worked nice.
Wide gamut monitors let you see more colors on the screen, most saturated and vibrant. Because printer produce more color range when printing, standard monitor (sRGB monitor like cintiq and etc) can't show you all the colors and from that point there is a frustration: what you see on the screen most of time the color not will be exact on the paper.
Wide gamut monitors are expensive too.
I think what you need is to calibrate your cintiq and the main monitor if you have it, look for friends, maybe someone have the colorimeter and after that try to deal with colors again.

[tomatoteam]

I use DataColor Spyder2 pro on my CintiQ, with 6500K and 1.8 gamma, it works great, Delta E < 1