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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 me.

Any inputs?

Thanks!

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 tried it they apparently perform very poorly if fed 
computer output in CMYK format.

Howard

hanson102 wrote:

> 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 me.
>
> Any inputs?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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does this mean that the printfix pro suite won't work with printers
that accept cmyk output?



--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, Howard <home@...> wrote:
>
> 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 tried it they apparently perform very poorly if fed 
> computer output in CMYK format.
> 
> Howard
> 
> hanson102 wrote:
> 
> > 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 me.
> >
> > Any inputs?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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The PrintFIX PRO software isn't designed to make CMYK profiles.  The
spectro unit itself doesn't preclude making multi-channel profiles
though most photographic printers these day are designed to accept RGB
input.
An interesting point to make is that the better inkjet printers these
days have more than just Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black (K).  The
Epson R1800 has additional inks for Red, Blue, Photo Black, Matte
Black, and Gloss Optimizer.  A valid question then would be ... do you
make a profile for CMYRBK?  How about the ones with light cyan,
magenta, and yellow.  Does this make it a C M Y LC LM LY K profile?
Since printer manufactuers have been changing ink formulations, hues,
and density its certainly simpler at the moment to stick with RGB and
let the printer manufacturers themselves worry about how to mix the
inks to result in a particular RGB color.
Anyhow I guess the point is that the software at the moment only makes
RGB profiles.  Do you have a printer that only accepts CMYK image
data?  Thats pretty rare these days isn't it?



--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, "hanson102" <hanson102@...>
wrote:
>
> does this mean that the printfix pro suite won't work with printers
> that accept cmyk output?
> 
> 
> 
> --- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, Howard <home@> wrote:
> >
> > 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 tried it they apparently perform very poorly
if fed 
> > computer output in CMYK format.
> > 
> > Howard
> > 
> > hanson102 wrote:
> > 
> > > 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 me.
> > >
> > > Any inputs?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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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
Epson driver.

The Epson driver is expecting an RGB file but converts it to "CMYK" to fire
the inks. 

If a CMYK file is sent to the Epson printer it converts it first to an RGB
file then back to CMYK before printing.


.

On 4/11/06 9:34 AM, "hanson102" <hanson102@...> wrote:

> does this mean that the printfix pro suite won't work with printers
> that accept cmyk output?
> 
> 
> 
> --- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, Howard <home@...> wrote:
>> 
>> 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 tried it they apparently perform very poorly if fed
>> computer output in CMYK format.
>> 
>> Howard
>> 
>> hanson102 wrote:
>> 
>>> 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 me.

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 RGB devices, in spite of having CMYK inks as the 
primary colors.

Jack Winberg

At 01:50 PM 4/11/2006, you wrote:

>From: "hanson102" <hanson102@...>
>Subject: Re: RGB Driven Color Printers?
>
>does this mean that the printfix pro suite won't work with printers
>that accept cmyk output?
>
>