Datacolor User to User Support Group.

Well you guys were right on in regard to media settings. I tried a
bunch of them. There is a big difference there. I was using two of the
fine art paper settings for the 10K -  smooth and textured and they
were pretty low. When I tried the Water Color setting out of PFP AND
dried the black patches completely, I'm getting a dmax of 1.67 on
Photorag as my highest reading! That is amazing out of RGB with no rip
to control ink limits, and the midtones and highlights are beautiful.
I have only been getting 1.68 with K6 on Photorag on the other
machines with a linearized rip, and that is on the high end of what
people are getting with K7.

I'll know more in a week or so but this looks very good to me now.

John 





> > 
> An RGB printer profile just controls what mix of R, G, and B is sent
to the 
> printer. It doesn't define how black black is, thats a media setting
choice. So 
> choose a media setting that offers a deeper black, if one exists.
RIPs allow 
> you to define rich blacks (black in plus other components), and
control ink 
> limits on each ink channel, which are among the reasons people use
them. If you 
> can create an inkset where ink cart black, at an available media
setting, is 
> black enough, than all that becomes unnecessary. But if you can't...
then thats 
> where the advanced functions come into play.
> 
> C. David Tobie
> Product Technology Manager
> ColorVision Business Unit
> Datacolor Inc.
> CDTobie@...
> www.colorvision.com
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