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RE: [Digital BW] ICC profiles for UT inks (was Epson C82 affordable "Carbon on Cotton")

2003-10-30 by Paul D. DeRocco

> From: Paul Roark [mailto:paul.roark@...]
>
> >Does it make sense to create ICC profiles for the UT
> >inks on the different papers and create cool, neutral
> >and warm tones with the ICC profiles?
>
> I'm just not familiar enough with ICC profiles to know.  I suspect they
> might be easier to use (if they worked), but I'm not sure they would be as
> easy or cheap to create or modify by users.  My whole approach is oriented
> to open and free systems.

The purpose of a profile is to accurately describe the hardware. If you want
to print cool, neutral or warm using color inks, then you really want to use
conventional color balance controls for that, so you can see it on the
screen, and then rely upon the profile to do what it's really intended for,
which is to make the print look like the screen.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...

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