24" Setting up colour

Hi All,
Shortly will have a new iMac, (first time owning a mac)
I know that when you see a colour on screen and then print the colurs always vary.
Isnt thier away to calibrate the colours?
I have a canon hi-res photo printer, res is 9600 x (i cant rember) - haha
How do I calibrate it as this is something I want to firstly do and get right at soon as setup..
As prime use for the mac is graphics/photography.
Cheers
Tom

if you are doing this with colour critical work then you will find the colour profiling in the iMac is very basic - it relies on your interpretation of different colours and shades.
as a photographer and having used a mac since the 80s i wouldn't trust anything except an external device such as pantone huey or colour munki or spyder 3 depending on your budget
with a colour munki you can use it to calibrate your printer as well!
i'm just about to take delivery of a 24" 3.06

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