Datacolor User to User Support Group.

Most of my work is color and of people on photo paper. The thing with
the old printfixpro was limited editing functions for the profile. The
global sliders where just too vague for what I needed for profile
adjustment. Am I reading I can use curves to edit my profiles? This
would be nice.

Randy Laskody

--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, CDTobie@... wrote:
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> 
> In a message dated 10/13/06 7:12:52 AM, rlphoto@... writes:
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> > Thanks CD, anyway since I have a 4000/7600 how will the new version
> > help me?
> > 
> 
> It won't work magic, since it runs via the RGB driver; so whatever gray 
> generation your driver uses will be what you get. 4000/7600
generation printers, 
> that create light grays from LtC, LtM, and Y will still be less
precise than 
> more recent printers that use extra light gray to replace a lot of
the color in 
> neutrals and near neutrals of light tone. And the light grays will
still have 
> more metamerism under various light sources than the newer models as
well. But 
> if you are printing B&W using standard color inksets from these
printers now, 
> then PFP2 should improve your results doing so. It will be better
B&W, just 
> not gallery quality B&W. 
> 
> Gallery quality from these older models will still require a third
party 
> inkset and some method to drive it (and PrintFIX PRO may well be
used to linearize 
> and/or profile such systems, but not via standard ICC profiles). I'd
love to 
> see B&W oriented inksets that can be controlled via PrintFIX PRO2.0
profiles 
> developed, so that users can get gallery quality B&W with custom
profiling and 
> previewing from such printers by dedicating them to B&W only, but we
need to 
> get the first 2.0 release done and out to users before looking into
more 
> advanced issues like third party ink support.
> 
> At the moment PFP will support any color inkset that prints properly
through 
> the driver, and can be used with Paul Roark's "hack" for the R2400, by 
> replacing the yellow cart with one of his carbon-gray carts for B&W
printing. Whether 
> variations on that system for older models can be developed is still
an open 
> question, but Paul and I both see PrintFIX PRO profiling of
specialty inksets 
> as a good idea, worth pursuing in the future.
> 
> C. David Tobie
> Product Technology Manager
> ColorVision Business Division
> DataColor Inc.
> CDTobie@...
> www.colorvision.com
>