Re: [colorvision_group] How Often?
2006-04-13 by Doug Lenos
In that line, how consistant are the various ink manufacturers? I use MediaStreet bulk inks, should I profile every time I replace a bottle of ink? ... From:
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2006-04-13 by Doug Lenos
In that line, how consistant are the various ink manufacturers? I use MediaStreet bulk inks, should I profile every time I replace a bottle of ink? ... From:
2006-04-13 by CDTobie@aol.com
... You may have missed it. There is a whole help section accessible from the help index named Color Gamuts and Rendering Intents that covers this in detail.
2006-04-13 by CDTobie@aol.com
... Correct, the test image on screen is FPO (For Placement Only), its the print you make from it that shows the results of your profile. We will color manage
2006-04-13 by CDTobie@aol.com
The right answer (and the one that many users resist hearing) is that your conditions should to be stable, consistant, and controlled, with no variable natural
2006-04-13 by CDTobie@aol.com
... Inkjets are very stable over time, I have no qualms about using a year old profile, if the inks and media are consistant. A laser, on the other hand,
2006-04-13 by CDTobie@aol.com
... If you mean you measured the white tile, and it wasn t perfectly white, that is indeed perfectly normal. The white tiles shipping with hundred thousand
2006-04-13 by Editor P.O.V. Image Service
... A few observations: 1) Dogs are red-green colorblind (http://www.uwsp.edu/psych/dog/LA/DrP4.htm ). Unless I want to have problems with my greens, what
2006-04-13 by Tom
... .... but it is a spectro . You mean people get confused between spectrocolorimeter and spectrophotometer? Yes sometimes they do. Technicaly our eyes are
2006-04-13 by peter_woelk
Stephan, ...phew, take one of your yellowish prints and look at it under an old fashion bulb light (between 40 and 100 Watts) please. Make sure that no other
2006-04-13 by hanson102
i tried adjust the colors, brightness and contrast, etc. how come the test image has the same look even if a adjust settings to the extreme? it seems that the
2006-04-13 by hanson102
i believe that a lot of us work with our images in varying lighting conditions in one specific area. i myself work in my room where ambient light changes from
2006-04-13 by hanson102
i hope my question here is not too elementary... anyway... i just got my PFPro Suite and i m starting to use it. so far, it s working fine. i still have to
2006-04-12 by sinar001
... SNIP The white calibration patch reads .12 density on mine, the Black reads 2.28. The printed target colors tend to look brighter than what the spectro
2006-04-12 by ellmer67
Today I used the calibration tool in PFP (black/white) and then measured the white patch and it reads it as grey-ish not white. Is this normal? Also the
2006-04-12 by mhovie71
Hi! I have a Canon Inkjet and a Minolta Color Laser. In both printer drivers, I can not choose a custom ICM profile, but Windows XP has a Color Management
2006-04-12 by CDTobie@aol.com
... Well, Driver Level Output Conversion would be a bit more standard, but it all means the same thing... C. David Tobie Product Technology Manager
2006-04-12 by CDTobie@aol.com
... At one time drivers allowed the use of third party profiles, but these days they do not, so you have no choice but to assign custom profiles elsewhere. If
2006-04-12 by Stephan Ellmerich
I am actually using Canon OEM inks with Ilford Classic Pearl paper on Canon i9950 printer
2006-04-12 by CDTobie@aol.com
... PrintFIX PRO does not build CMYK profiles. Some devices that accept CMYK output (which basicly means PostScript RIPs and devices with internal PostScript
2006-04-12 by CDTobie@aol.com
... Sounds like a viable workflow. Yet you get casts in two companies profiles and in raw prints. I don t recall what combination you are using, but there s
2006-04-12 by Stephan Ellmerich
Hi Peter, Well, to be on the safe side I have put 8 new cartridges and it doesn t improve things. And I don t think it could be the problem because I get
2006-04-12 by peter_woelk
Hi Stephan, years ago I had an i9000 and mine (and others too I heard in forums) had sometimes a problem with the light cyan cart which results in yellowish
2006-04-11 by Stephan Ellmerich
Hello Peter, I just tried to print from my laptop and unfortunately still the same problem, I am really running out of ideas... Stephan
2006-04-11 by ellmer67
forgot to say, I tried Qimage and the yellow cast is still there... ... choose the ... ICM ... different ... yellow ... when ... application ... set to ...
2006-04-11 by Stephan Ellmerich
Hi Peter, Or at least start with installing or ... Done still the same ... done ... done ... yes ... yes ... yes ... yes ... tried different paper media,
2006-04-11 by Tom
Heh, No the profiles work fine when you let the printer driver use them. You want to turn the profiling off when printing the test target. That way you get a
2006-04-11 by peter_woelk
Hello Martin, there are many reasons against using inside driver color management (IDCM that s how I call it, it s not an offical name for it). 1. People who
2006-04-11 by mhovie71
Hi! I m new to color calibration and I ve just ordered a PrintFix Pro Suite, which should be delivered in a few days. After reading reviews and discussions,
2006-04-11 by peter_woelk
Stephan, if you have a chance to test your printer connected to another computer, then do it! Now I m so far to believe that your current system is corrupted
2006-04-11 by Jack Winberg
Hi: No, it does NOT mean that at all. PFP works with a very wide variety of printers. Many are not aware that inkjet printers (and many others) are actually
2006-04-11 by Johnny Eades
Hello Stephen, I too ran into a similar situation when first using Printfix Pro to create a printer/paper/ink profile. It was s misunderstanding on my part on
2006-04-11 by Stephan Ellmerich
Hi Peter, I will try your suggestion but the problem is that I get the yellow cast even when I print the test profile page from PFP itself (not using PSCS2)...
2006-04-11 by John Vitollo
If your are asking if PrintFIX PRO will make CMYK profiles then the answer is no. You can print CMYK files using a PrintFIX PRO RGB paper profile using the
2006-04-11 by Tom
The PrintFIX PRO software isn t designed to make CMYK profiles. The spectro unit itself doesn t preclude making multi-channel profiles though most
2006-04-11 by hanson102
does this mean that the printfix pro suite won t work with printers that accept cmyk output? ...
2006-04-11 by peter_woelk
Hi again Stephan, try to use another application for printing, Qimage for example. That will be one way to figure out if something is wrong with your photoshop
2006-04-11 by ellmer67
I have tried with all 4 rendering options and with or without black point comp still the same yellow cast. The cast is really obvious (looks really bad) Thanks
2006-04-11 by Stephan Ellmerich
I use PSCS2 and apply the profiles in print with preview let photoshop determine colors then in the printer driver (canon i9950) I choose the paper
2006-04-11 by CDTobie@aol.com
... lighting and printing without using the profile is good (no yellow cast) so the problem comes when using profiles (the same happens when I use Illford
2006-04-11 by Howard
All inkjet consumer printers are designed to take RGB output from the computer and convert it internally to CMYK data before printing. Although I ve never
2006-04-11 by hanson102
The box of the Print Fix Pro Suite says that it works with any RGB driven Color Printer. What does this exactly mean? Printers are CMYK inks. This confuses
2006-04-10 by xun wang
what rendering intent are you printing it with and how strong is the yellowish cast? -- ... xun911@gmail.com www.xun-wang.com
2006-04-10 by ellmer67
Hi Peter, Thank you for your reply but I have the same problem under different lighting and printing without using the profile is good (no yellow cast) so the
2006-04-10 by CDTobie@aol.com
No, just go ahead and give it a try... any questions that come up that are not covered in the help can be posted here as they arise. C. David Tobie Product
2006-04-10 by CDTobie@aol.com
If you haven t heard back in three weeks, then I d say you aren t on the list; their response time is a day or two. They would just refer you to me anyways;
2006-04-10 by peter_woelk
Hello Stephan, maybe your viewing condition is very cool light (~10000 Kelvin), for example skylight through a north side window. Try the PreciseLight Color
2006-04-09 by S. Prior
Here is the latest... I still never got a reply from my support email to CV after 3 weeks.... Tobie, responded to my direct email, but has not had the time to
2006-04-09 by ellmer67
Hello all, I bought PFP because I was fed up with always having to compensate when printing on Illford Classic Pearl paper and Canon papers. But I have exactly
2006-04-09 by davedoughman
I ll be receiving my new Samsung 214T later this week. Are there any issues I should be aware of as I do my first color balancing using SpyderPro 2.2 with
2006-04-08 by Johnny Eades
Hello CD, Your mentioning something rang a chord about monitor profiles in Windows and went to the display choice in control Panel and the settings tab and