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You can use the same method David outlined. I find the 225 patch target works for my needs. I would try that first. Needless to say it's imperative to read the patches in their proper order no matter which target you use.

Walt


>-----Original Message-----
>From: shmuelmandelbaum [mailto:sm8770@gmail.com]
>Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 02:34 AM
>To: colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [colorvision_group] Re: PrintFix Pro Software - feature request
>
>David
>thank you very much for the info.
>i will try this sometime this week.
>this may sound crazy, but i read that the best profile for a dye-sub 
>printer would be with the largest ~750 color target.  
>Is this possible as well?
>thank you very much,
>Shmuel
>
>
>--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, David Miller <dm2363@...> 
>wrote:
>>
>> >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 
>> ><mailto:colorvision_group%
>40yahoogroups.com>colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, 
>> >"nwkcmk123" <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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