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[colorvision_group] Re: PrintFix Pro Software - feature request

2006-08-21 by David Miller

Please!
ColorVision,
please consider updating your software for 4x6 printers.
i have a dedicated sony printer that i would like to calibrate.
otherwise, i have had printfix pro for 3 days and am very impressed.
thank you,
Shmuel

Hello Shmuel,

Glad you like what you've seen so far!

There's a way you can profile a 4x6 printer with the existing software, if
you subdivide the 225 patch target in Photoshop and print it on separate
4x6 sheets:

- Open up the Targets subfolder in the main PrintFIX PRO folder.

- You'll find a Photoshop-compatible version of the 225 patch target there:
High Quality Target.tif.

- You can open this and print it directly from Photoshop. It's an untagged
.tif file; make sure, when you open it, that you leave it that way (Photoshop
should NOT color manage it).

- LIkewise, you can break this image file up into subsections, and print them
separately on 4x6 sheets. You can probably get rows 1-8, columns A-H in the
first print; 1-8, I-O in the 2nd; 9-15, A-H in the 3rd; and 9-15, I-O in
the 4th. Crop these as tightly as you can and print them with the patches
as large as possible on the 4x6 sheets. (If you're going to do this for
several papers, and for future use, save 4 new .tif files for yourself
once you've broken it up this way, so that it will be easy to open and
print them again later).

- Once you've printed these, with no color management (make SURE you have
this set right: in Photoshop's Print With Preview dialog: no color
management; and likewise, turned off in the printer driver); you can
measure from them and build a profile. Just make sure you measure the patches
in the proper order.


Best regards,


David Miller
Senior Software Developer, Digital Color Solutions
ColorVision



--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, "nwkcmk123"
wrote:
>
> At the moment, PrintFix Pro software allow us to profile A4 size
> paper. I wonder in future release of PrintFix Pro software, will
there
> be any support for 4R size paper profiling?
>

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