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Re: Test image

2006-03-20 by Tom

--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, "xun wang" <xun911@...> wrote:
>
> Two things:
> 1) For those of you who find no problem with the blue in Softproof,
don't
> take it too literally. A printer output profile is bidirectional,
what you
> see only represents the AtoB table, but it is the BtoA table that really
> controls your printer's output(which you don't see). Ideally the
AtoB should
> present the BtoA accurately, but that's not always the case, which
is partly
> why we sometime need a profile editor in the first place...
> Print out Randy's pic(4x6 - 5x7 should be enough, wait for 10-15min then
> evaluate it under proper lighting). I just did it on my r1800 PFP
225target
> on enhanced matte, and the blue shift is worse than my softproof.
> 2) Having said that, although I have purple shift too, it's not
nearly as
> bad(posterized) as Randy's softproof shows. Mine only looks bad when
it's
> been compared to the original picture or the profile produced by
> Monacoprofiler.
> 
> Xun

Maybe its the paper/ink combination because it prints okay on my R1800
and looks darn close to the original.  I do not detect a hue shift. 
I'm using Crane Museo because I don't have any Enhanced Matte.

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