Digital BW, The Print

I sent Dry Creek three profile requests yesterday Tues. Nov 8th. I next day 
mailed them at 5:30 PM   from New Jersey. One for a Konica/Minolta 5430DL , 
another one for my Epson 9600 and a third for my Epson 4800.   Today Wed Nov 9, 
at 9:24 PM Ethan emailed the profiles for the 4800 and Konica printers with the 
9600 promised for tomorrow, and as usual their pretty dead nuts on.   Hope 
this helps. 


 


Stephen Lacko

Belmar, NJ 07719


stephenpho@...

Konica 5430 profiles:
Single profile: Accent Opaque Vellum Paper: $50
Additional profile: Epson Premium Luster Paper: $50
Additional profile: Epson Somerset Velvet Paper: $50

Profiles created: 9 November, 2005

Payment received: $150
Check Number: 7500  

Dry Creek Photo
Custom profiling service purchase details:

Stephen Lacko

Belmar, NJ 07719

stephenpho@...

Konica 5430 profiles:
Single profile: Accent Opaque Vellum Paper: $50
Additional profile: Epson Premium Luster Paper: $50
Additional profile: Epson Somerset Velvet Paper: $50

Profiles created: 9 November, 2005

Payment received: $150
Check Number: 7500Stephen,

Thank you for using our custom profiling service. The Accent Vellum profile 
for your 5430 DL and the luster profile for the 4800 are attached. The Velvet 
paper requires measuring on a different, slower system. I will forward it along 
when it is available -- should be tomorrow. Also included below is a color 
gamut map comparing the mid-tone color range of your printer to Adobe RGB and 
sRGB.

The usual comments about checking rendering intents apply - Relative 
Colorimetric should be the best for most images, while shots with heavy shadow detail 
or extensive saturated colors can benefit from Perceptual rendering. We 
improved our profiling algorithms since the last time we built profiles for you. 
Traditionally, the Saturation intent has either been mapped to the Perceptual 
intent or reserved for printing business graphics such as PowerPoint slides where 
primary colors are all that matter. Neither struck us as useful, so we built 
our own. We tune the Saturation tonality to fall between Rel. Color. and 
Perceptual, while biasing colors towards heightened saturation and clean primaries. 
This works well for many images, particularly ones where you want some extra 
punch. Saturation rendering may well, in fact, prove to be the most generally 
useful for both your laser printer and the Velvet paper.

All this may sound complicated, but after reviewing a handful of images you 
quickly get a feel for which rendering intent best complements the image 
content.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact us.

Regards,
Ethan Hansen
Dry Creek Photo

 




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