Re: profiling 9500
Re: profiling 9500
- Subject: Re: profiling 9500
- From: Joel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:48:12 -0600
Steve Upton wrote:
It seems to me that perhaps you are dealing with over-inking?
I have noticed on many media that if the ink limits are too high, the
tonal range goes up through the heavier coverage until it stops
adding density and starts puddling and behaving strangely.
Is this the sort of behavior you are observing? Can you get it to
behave itself if you lower the ink limits in the RIP?
Uh Steve..Joel didnt' write the below (eudora stripped my >'s off
michael's copy:
I think some of the problems I'm having is due to the fact that many of the
greens and oranges on the printed profile target do not print as a flat
color. The swatches look very textured (marbled), much like the a metallic
paint finish on a car only enlarged.
Michael email@hidden wrote the above
Anyway, my position on this topic is:
There are two basic causes for the welling up of inks on the surfaces
of materials which have a substrate surface:
- overinking is the first obvious one
- the second: the substrate (surface) itself will not accept the ink
type; dyes may brush or dust off, pigments will well up, bubble, or
run loosely on top. If this in fact the case, the only result is to
choose a different media or live with diminished results - usually in
the solids, frequently in black. For example: one of the photobase
media's I use cannot/will not print black density above 65% but the
other colors print fine. I use this media anyway because the inkjet
screening mixes all colors to achieve a perceptual rendering of each
colour anyway. Looks pretty overall, but not the punch of a true
receiver photo paper.
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Joel Johnstone
designtype
Winnipeg Manitoba Canada
email: work: email@hidden
color geek in residence, reality notwithstanding