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The taming of the Pictro - gotta say, I'm just tickled.

2006-03-31 by Mike Landry

I ordered my PrintFix Pro over a month ago, but it got stuck in 
the "back-ordered" logjam.  I was patient, though, and it arrived the 
other day.  

While I waited for it to arrive, I lurked on this group & absorbed the 
various advice & experiences everybody was sharing.  (I now know *way* 
more about profiling dual monitors under WinXP than I ever thought I 
would - LOL.)

Well, I bought the PFP in order to get a decent profile for my Fuji 
Pictrography 3500 printer.  I goofed around with the PFP for about a 
day, getting the hang of it.  I painted a stripe around the nose with 
some white-out - yep, that helped, good tip.  Yesterday, I created a 
Pictro profile from the 729-patch chart and WHOA! - I'm just tickled 
about the results.  Man, this printer just rocks now that I have a 
decent profile for it!

Next up, maybe I'll step outside the Epson ink/paper world for my 2200.

I doubt I'm going to get quite as geeky about profiling as some of you 
guys - I figure it's possible to drive a car without knowing the inner 
workings of fuel injection, it must be the same for color - but it's 
fun to read what you guys are up to.

Thanks to everybody for sharing your experiences, and especially to 
CDavidT for his comments, critiques and generally patient way of 
explaining stuff.

If anybody else has a Pictro, maybe you'd share your driver settings?  
I set mine for ICM OFF, all sliders neutral, Image Process OFF and Grey 
Balance to Gray3(sRGB).  Any reason to believe I'd get a better profile 
with different driver settings?

Regards,
Mike

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