Stupid question If I print this on a really nice sheet of paper

No you won't. You need to calibrate the print first then measure each patch with a sensitometer and account for that in the correct software.

>>2695529 It's expensive because the patches are matte paint with documented spectral reflectances. If you want to calibrate colours get the real one.

If you are a cheap amateur who would like colours approximately correct get a grey card instead.

>>2695529
you mostly don't want/need to calibrate on colours. grey will be sufficient. use 160g bleached pulp and print some gray gradients with a laser printer on them. this way you get excellent reference values (be carefull when your sensor is sensible for UV light, though. use a blocking filter or unbleached pulp then).

>>2695633 Cheap grey cards are cheap and do the job better than dithered print.

>>2695529
No. Not even close. the whole point is, those values are all exactly the values they should be. If your printer profile is even a tiny bit off (which it is) or your inks are even slightly varied from the originals (they are) your calibrations will be useless.

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36KB, 700x700px

I have this ~ $ 2.5 (including slow shipping from China). Only complaint is that black card is not matte enough for my taste.

>>2695529
If you open up DaVinci 12 you can see some chip charts that are available.

I guess the poor mans route would be is to make a print screen of it, assemble a close looking chart in photoshop using eyedropped colors from the print screened image

however as >>2695612 said, they do more than just print it out on a matte piece of cardboard

i'd say try anyways

>>2695660
beginning fag here. Why do you need white and black? I thought the goal was middle grey

>>2697818
white balance, sometimes grey isn't enough

if you use After Effects, you can use the CC Color Neutralizer plugin to set your white, grey, and black

>>2695529
Why not get the non jew version of it?
They sell something similar for 30 USD, or you can get a scanner target for 8 and diy it into a piece of plastic or cardboard
>http://www.targets.coloraid.de/