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Re: [colorvision_group] RGB puzzle

2006-03-14 by David Miller

>My PrintFix Pro arrived only two days after I ordered it.  Great!  I
>made some profiles and they were very good.  I even printed some black
>and white and they came out (drum roll) black and white.
>
>But I am puzzled.  When I was reading patches (on the 225 patch
>sample) the Lab reading shown near the lower left corner seems
>reasonable, but the RGB values make no sense at all.  They seem to be
>related to the position on the chart, not RGB values.  What is going
>on here?  What does this RGB mean?
>

Those are just telling you what the "pure" values of the RGBs in the
target are at those locations. Only the Lab values that are displayed
for a patch (after taking a measurement) correspond to actual measured values.


-- 
David Miller
Senior Software Developer, Digital Color Solutions
ColorVision

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