Print color has too much red???

[trwphoto]

The simpelist thing to do is print one of your photos, set your monitor to it and do this a cople of times til they both do the same print. I use a photo from my lab as a color guide to set my monitor then I know I am sending them what I want. I check this frequently with the same print all the time to see if they are getting off or am I. Goes back to the old TRUDY lab thingy everyone use to try and match. I do not sell any of my prints from printers. I still don't trust them to keep color as long as lab prints. Besides it is alot less expensive to get lab prints done than to print them on an inkjet printer. I can shoot, edit, send the prints to the lab over the net and have them back in one day. Gawd I do love digital and the internet. And they sed it wouldn't last.

[Slash_Page]

Can anyone recomend a good monitor calibration tool? and a good online lab?
question...how do you know that your monitor is calibrated to what the lab has, without trial and error guess work?

[CatCynic]

You get the lab to send you a colour profile for the printer/paper combination you wish to use. You should have one for each printer/paper combination. Then you select this profile when making the print file (or when soft-proofing).

You still need to calibrate your monitor - a Gretag-Macbeth Eye-One Display version 2 isn't horribly expensive, and a Spyder is even cheaper.