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RE: [colorvision_group] PrintFix Pro profile problems

2006-08-08 by Paul Nieuwenhuize

Thank you to David Miller from ColorVision.
And to all of you who suggested the obvious from the start.
David took one look at my measurements and pointed out that they all looked perfect, in fact too perfect.
It appears that I did NOT turn off colour management, as I thought I had done. The target printed, showed pretty much full gamut and I was not aware what I was looking at and I assumed that every thing was ok with the first patch print.
As I now know, after printing a target correctly, the printed target should have been muted and dark.
Now that I see the difference, it is so obvious a half blind person could make it out. Man am I kicking myself on this one.
I honestly thought that colour management was OFF in the driver, because as I said I never have it on!!
But this has made a liar out of me.
Not the first time of course and I guess it won't be the last.
I put my hand up to everyone and admit culpability for this error.
At least there is the hope that someone else will see this and not make the same errors I have.
Thanks again to David Miller and to the others who posted advice and thanks ColorVision for a great product, as I now have some great prints to show for it.
Paul

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

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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@....
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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.

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