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Re: [colorvision_group] Re: spyder2express
2006-12-07 by CDTobie@aol.com
In a message dated 12/7/06 12:13:17 PM, mick094m@... writes:
,so I then printed off a sample of a print that I had
previously printed with photoshop using the Gamma calibration
settings in photoshop, that I had been using prior to the purchase of
this product.Expecting to get better prints from my printer,but on
comparison of the two prints in "good daylight" ....."not with any
proofing light", the one with this product is darker,in other words
less detail in the Shadows and overall darker, this could be
corrected
with photoshop but I thought that this was not the purpose of this
product
Hard to know exactly what you mean, so here's the full set of responses:
First, if you aren't adjusting the files on screen, just printing it, then whether you use an AdobeGamma monitor profile, or a hardware monitor profile makes NO difference in the prints at all.
Second, if you are adjusting the images on screen, seperately under the two monitor profiles, then that STILL doesn't close the loop to your prints; until you have a profiled printer, there's really no gurarantee, and a poorly controlled printer might well relate better to a poorly profiled monitor. Its a crap shoot.
Next, comparing two prints under daylight tells you how they look with quite cool lighting, and lots of it. This effects colors and shadow detail. Unless your work is to hang in very open, daylit environments, this isn't the best way to judge prints. (And is this IS how your prints will be displayed, they won't last very long! )
Finally, if you are profiling both your printer and your monitor, then you should get a good relationship between them; what the prints look like compared to prints corrected on an AdobeGamma monitor is a rather abstract difference... I know of no way to quantify that.
C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Unit
Datacolor Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com