#SPYDER 4 ELITE RED BY DATACOLOR SKIN#

The printing company told me all i have to worry about is matching my monitor to their printer, and told me to geta spyder pro. I just figured that its pointless trying to match colors/brightness etc from a screen with light running through it to a print side by side without illuminating the print. Finally, trying to print without good accurate paper profiles is also a recipe for disaster.Ĭolor calibrating is completely new to me. And using the LED from a phone as an illumination source seems crazy to me. Trying to visually match a monitor to some standard is a fools errand. I think the additional features the other versions offer are largely irrelevant for most users. That is really all I could ask from a color calibration tool.

All I can tell you is that my monitor matches my prints exactly. The 'R' stands for 'Red', and red makes everything go faster. I have a new monitor, a good one, PLS screen, close to an Imac equivalent for a PC. So now i'm directed towards a specific calibration tool, ie : spyder. Colors just do not look right on my print outs vs the colors on my screen.

#SPYDER 4 ELITE RED BY DATACOLOR SKIN#

When i printed out my photos i realized the skin tones were not pinky, but clearly darker, so something is out. To me it looked almost identical, so close.

I initially have tried to calibrate my monitor with a test print card from the printing company vs the same picture on my monitor, shining an led light from my S5 smartphone to illuminate the card. Today i was told by an experienced printing company that the base model Spyder is as good a tool to calibrate my monitor vs the more expensive Spyder models. $320 Datacolor Spyder 4 Elite VS + $$ etc.

Spyder 4 elite red by datacolor