Stepwedge calibration & [OT?] Frontier Lab printing
2005-07-08 by Chris Aitken
Hi all, Some of this may be off topic (as the machines wet process). But I'll ask anyhow. I have received a number of B+W prints from one of these systems. They have been produced on Fujicolour Crystal Archive paper by a Frontier 370 or 390 minilab. One of the prints produces was a 21 step calibration print (as sugggested at [1]). Firstly - is the method at [1] suitable, or even a good way to profile the printer. Secondly, an RGB printing process is never going to be the best at producing B+W prints, but have people here had prints done this way, and how to they compare to say, a C86 or a 2000/4000 series Epson print? For information, I used the photobox.co.uk service [2], which appears to be similar to shutterfly, although it would appear that shutterfly do apply some form of image tweaking [3]. All my images were priduced at 300dpi, apart from the stepwedge, which was 240dpi (as per the URL), although I notice that photobox print at 300dpi... Appreciate any comments/observations. Cheers Chris [1] http://www.jnevins.com/stepwedge.htm [2] http://www.photobox.co.uk/quality.html#printing [3] http://www.shutterfly.com/help/processing.jsp#before -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.