Datacolor User to User Support Group.

I have QImage and it is a lovely program but printing from Lightroom
provides awesomely fast workflow (which QImage can't match once I'm
using Lightroom for everything else) and excepting this problem
provides really nice results.  

Also, using my other available profiles, saturation intent and
perceptual intent are extremely similar while with the PrintFixPro
generated profiles they are dramatically different.  To me that
suggests there is the possibility that some change in the ICC
generated would solve this problem in a good way.



--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, "J Bryan Kramer"
<codeburner@...> wrote:
>
> Think about getting QImage. A lot of people prefer it over CS3 or
LR. They
> have a full function 30 day demo. The GUI stinks but it works very well.
> 
> <http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage/>
> 
> BK
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 14, 2007 11:33 AM, nealdryan <ryannd@...> wrote:
> 
> > Using Spyder3Print with my new PrintFixPro I made a 255 color ICC
> > profile for my HP B9180 and Epson Premium Presentation Paper Matte.
> >
> > I then tested it using Bill Atkinson's LAB color test image in
> > the "Profile Test Images archive here:
> > http://homepage.mac.com/billatkinson/FileSharing2.html
> >
> > On all the profiles that come with the B9180, when I soft proof in
> > CS3, the perceptual and the saturation rendering intents give
> > essentially the screen display (which look great) and they print
> > very well and very much like the soft proof displays.
> >
> > On the profile I made with PrintFixPro the bright yellows
> > (especially around the sun in the sunset picture at the lower left
> > but all yellows in other parts too) are muddy and have lots of black
> > in them on perceptual and look good on saturation intent. And the
> > prints look just like the soft proof--unusably muddy on the yellow
> > colors with perceptual rendering.
> >
> > You guys off course recomend saturation and not perceptual intent on
> > rendering and that works fine for CS3.  Unfortunately I do almost
> > all my printing with Lightroom which doesn't give me a choice of
> > saturation -- it's perceptual or relative only as rendering intent
> > with Lightroom.
> >
> > Help!
> >
> > Neal
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> J Bryan Kramer
> North Florida, USA
> photos at:
> http://pbase.com/photoburner
>