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Re: [colorvision_group] PFP Suite with Fuji Frontier F340
2006-04-21 by CDTobie@aol.com
In a message dated 4/20/06 4:02:22 AM, hanson102@... writes:
1. how come my print and file viewed on the monitor are off?
Color management does not match your monitor to your printer in any direct way, it just corrects both, and if appropriate standards and illuminants are used, the result is that both match well, because both are corrected. Your description of the process sounds correct, but you don't list the details, and somewhere in those details you probably made a color workflow error that is causing your problem.
2. i noticed that the target prints bundled with the PFP is set at
72dpi 12"x10", if i print this out from the frontier at 8"x10", the
color chart comes out soft and blurred since the original resolution
is at 72dpi only and the frontier prints at 300dpi. is this a big
concern? i mean, does reading soft, blurred color patches wrong?
should i be reading sharp color patches to make it accurate? if so,
how can i achieve this since the bundled target prints are at 72dpi
and interpolation doesn't help that much?
It does not matter that the files are soft, you are measuring spot colors, not dealing with photo quality issues. The images can be resized as desired in Photoshop, and resaved to somewhere other than the targets folder for use with your Fuji. They are not necessarily 72 dpi at 12x10, thats just how the Fuji is defining them based on the pixel resolution. Targets are ususally resampled for resizing using the Nearest Neighbor setting, but again, that only effects the edges, not the patch color, which is the key here.
is there any target prints set at 8"x10" at 300dpi that is available
for download?
No, and no need for them, really, they would just be bigger files to download, that would contain the same colors. You can up-rez them yourself in Photoshop if you want that size.
3. i noticed that the target prints do not have an embedded profile
when i opened it in photoshop. should i print the target file without
assigning a profile?
This is probably where you are getting in trouble. If you don't assign a profile, and then print them using the No Color Management setting in Print with Preview, that should do the trick, but if your Fuji driver is not working properly with those settings, you could try assigning AdobeRGB on opening, then, using NCM (Same as Source in older versions of Photoshop) when printing. In either case you need to set the Fuji driver's advanced setttigns to no color adjustment, or the equivalent.
i hope you guys can help me with this. has anyone every calibrated a
fuji frontier using PFP?
I have, but not directly, there's always been someone else running the Frontier end of things, so I can't describe the settings from memory; I just know that operators have no trouble running targets and prints without color management to get good targets and color managed prints.
C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Division
DataColor Inc.
CDTobie@...
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