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Re: [colorvision_group] Better target prints

2006-03-21 by randy

This is all very interesting.  I am sure there is a work around to these 
problems.  I wish I had the time to experiment more myself.

Randy

Brian Smith wrote:

>This may be of help to some people.
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>Last night I made a new profile for epson archival matte (enhanced 
>matte?) on the epson 2100. This time I printed the 225 patch target 
>with the colour density (in epson's driver dialogue) reduced by 20%. 
>Otherwise it was the same as the first profile I did with 'no colour 
>adjustment', 1440dpi, hi-speed unchecked. There was a startling 
>difference in the target print.
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>Before, it was not possible to differentiate by eye, in good light, 
>between A1 and B1 and between any of the patches K6 to O6 and K7 to 
>O7. With the reduction in print density there was a clear visible 
>difference in the patches and the resulting profile gave much better 
>detail in the shadows and dark foliage areas.
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>It certainly pays to study your target print and optimise that before 
>making a profile.
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