Re: [colorvision_group] Media Setting effects on Profile results
2006-03-21 by CDTobie@aol.com
In a message dated 3/20/06 6:24:01 AM, ttrostel@... writes:
I did get some very nasty banding effects and color shift
interestingly to orange on the Crane paper if I used Velvet Fine Art
as the media. It smooths out and gets a lot better (though not
perfect) using the 729 patch target. Even with that though it still
has some minor banding and a shift. If however it is printed with
the Enhanced Matte setting everything looks perfect.
Fortunately there is a media setting that eliminates the crossovers and allows you to profile this combination. People never want to hear it, but there are "unprofilable" combinations, based in a wide range of factors (ink load being one of the most common)... sometimes a paper, ink, and printer combo will be unprofilable simply because there is no media setting that can produce a sufficiently untangled raw target print. This may vary somewhat between profiling applications, but generally, if a combination is problematic, it may be worth avoiding, as it is likely to be brittle later on, with difficult images, profile edits, working to bring colors in gamut, etc...
Avoiding the worst ten percent of printer, ink, paper combos, would eliminate over fifty percent of profiling problems.
C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision, Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com