20 years of aligning screens with my eyes before a press check guy in Chicago set me straight

Was running a small run of business cards on my desktop printer. Had them looking good on my monitor. Showed up to the shop for a larger order and the old timer just looked at my file and said "you calibrated that screen with your gut didn't you". He handed me a cheap color calibration tool. First test print came out way different. He had me run it three times before I got close. Whole time I thought I was saving money eyeballing it. Anyone else skip calibrating and waste a bunch of ink?

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reese5509d ago

Sounds like you were paying the stupid tax in ink instead.

emma6849d ago

Stupid tax in ink" - yeah, that's about right. I used to think good pens were just a waste of money, but one smudged check later I completely changed my mind. Now I get why @reese550 said that, it's money well spent when you don't have to rewrite everything.