Datacolor User to User Support Group.

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

> > 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?
> > 
> Those sound like very good settings for Pictro profiling. Whether 
you could 
> get mild increases in gamut or neutrality with other settings, I 
can't say. Try 
> it. But definately try it with the 225 patch target, no reason to 
read 729 
> until you have found exactly what you want for a configuration!
> 
> 
> C. David Tobie
> Product Technology Manager
> ColorVision Business Unit
> Datacolor Inc.
> CDTobie@...
> www.colorvision.com
>

Comparing the Fuji-provided profile to the "CV729" profile I 
generated yesterday - I soft-proofed the test image with all the 
babies on it using each profile - the CV profile has almost no gamut 
warnings (just a speck here & there) while the Fuji profile generates 
an appreciable amount of gamut warnings.

I'll try the other Gray Balance settings in the driver and see if I 
can reduce those gamut warnings even more - but at some point, good 
enough is good enough for me.

The other choices for Gray Balance are Gray1(2.2/9300) and Gray2
(1.8/6500).  Neither of those sound right to me, so I use the Gray3
(sRGB) setting.

Suggestion for a future release:  on my Pictro, I physically cannot 
feed a sheet back thru the printer a second/third/fourth time.  In 
such a case the "quadrant printing" for the media settings check 
makes no sense at all.  How about giving the user the option to print 
those at full size?

Thanks,
Mike

--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Landry" <zml53@...> wrote:
> Suggestion for a future release:  on my Pictro, I physically cannot 
> feed a sheet back thru the printer a second/third/fourth time.  In 
> such a case the "quadrant printing" for the media settings check 
> makes no sense at all.  How about giving the user the option to print 
> those at full size?

Actually you do have the option to print full size in the latest beta software release....good 
addition! 

Are you using the beta? If not contact CDTobie he'll point you to the download.

--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, CDTobie@... wrote:
> Already done and instituted for the next release version (beta
testers can 
> tell you what they think of it from the current beta).
> 
> C. David Tobie
> Product Technology Manager
> ColorVision Business Division
> DataColor Inc.
> CDTobie@...
> www.colorvision.com
>

Its handy also because it gives you a larger area to review when
trying to critique the profiles produced.  Definately a positive
feature.  Thank you