Hi all.
As a new print fix pro user I am finding I cannot achieve the results I was expecting.
I am presuming that I am doing something wrong, but of course I need direction to see if this is correct or it is another issue
Paul,
(Having also read the other responses on the list, to your
original message:
I also wanted to thank the others for answering as well: Tom,
Ghi, Bill,
and Chuck)...:-)
If you'd like me to have a look at your measurements (as I did
with Ed Limmy's
a week or so ago), just bundle them into a .zip file and email
them to me
off list at davem@....
I can't say yet what your problem is, but no, you shouldn't
expect to have
to make large tweaks with the sliders at all, and you shouldn't
be getting
profiles that print the way that you're describing: dark.
The most likely reason is that something's not right in how
you're using
the profile in Photoshop.
So actually, one thing you can do immediately would be this: use
PFP's
test print feature (after building the profile), and let us know
whether
-that- test print is also too dark (vs the tests you're printing
from inside
both QImage and CS2).
That's one of the reasons why we added the test print feature to
PFP: so that
it would be possible for people to evaluate the profile, setting
aside the
usual procedure of hooking the profile into Photoshop.
This is important: when you do the test print from -inside PFP-,
you need to
make sure that the printer driver settings (inside Page Setup in
PFP) are
-the same- as they were when you first printed the target that
you measured.
PFP applies the profile for you (which is what happens when that
progress
bar appears, briefly, on the test print wizard screen), so you
don't want
to apply the profile twice; -don't- apply the profile inside the
printer
driver when you're testing this way, inside PFP.
Best regards,
--
David Miller
Senior Software Developer, Digital Color Solutions
ColorVision
Senior Software Developer, Digital Color Solutions
ColorVision