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Hi DAvid,

Should i be comparing the measured patches to the suggested patches 
for conformity? I didn't do that. What i did do last night after the 
measurement was to bring up the printed patches and matched that to 
the measured patches on the screen - I did that to check that I had 
measured all patches correctly. i had not compared using the 
suggested patch color because earlier on during measuring I saw a few 
patches were slightly different from its suggested color.

Ed.

--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, David Miller <dm2363@...> 
wrote:
>
> >
> >With much anticipation, I then loaded my regular prints and
> >softproofed it in PS. I was quite dismayed at the softproof on dark
> >blue t-shirts. Where there are folds in the t-shirt and in shadows,
> >the softproof showed pitch shining black, totally devoid of 
details.
> 
> No, that shouldn't happen.
> 
> >I proceeded to print (with all printer controls set to zero) with 
the
> >new profile and while general colors were in the vicinity, it was 
too
> >cyanish or bluish. Looks like I'm not going to get a spot-on match
> >the first time. No choice now but to go into repetitive rebuilding
> >of the profile with color adjustments to match what I see on the
> >softproof. I plan to do this on the weekend where I can get some
> >daylight next to the print.
> 
> Also recommended:
> 
> - Check your measurements. Go back to the Read Patches screen, 
switch
> to the bottom half, select your measurement file, View/Measure to 
open
> it up in the Target window again, and switch the popup in the 
bottom right
> corner to show the measured colors. Eyeball this, alongside your 
target
> print, and make sure that your measurements look right (if not, 
any "off"
> measurements should stand out like a sore thumb on the 729 patch 
target).
> Assuming you did the 3 letter-size page version, switch to all the 
pages
> and check them all. (If any are off, you can use the cursor keys to 
go
> back to any patches you like, and remeasure them).
> 
> - If you'd like, email me a copy of your measurement .xml file and 
I can
> have a quick look at it, too. (Stuff, or zip, the file, and email 
it to
> me at davem@...).
> 
> 
> -- 
> David Miller
> Senior Software Developer, Digital Color Solutions
> ColorVision
>