Profiliong Epson Pro 5500 with Archival Inks
Profiliong Epson Pro 5500 with Archival Inks
- Subject: Profiliong Epson Pro 5500 with Archival Inks
- From: "Udo J. Machiels" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 13:23:10 +0100
Hello everybody,
I hope there is someone out there who good help me a bit.
I am an interior colour designer and for advertising purposes and I make
myself photographs from my own work. (For the web and for printing)
I design multi coloured walls (for some samples see
http://www.atmos-wanddesign.de).
For this work I need extremely high accurate color management.
Together with my G4 Mac 450Mhz, I use a Heidelberg scanner, made profiles
for this scanner with Scan Open supplied with the machine and also with
Colorblind Matchbox+ (so I can choose) I used Prove-it with the Spectrocam
to calibrate my Apple 17" Monitor.
I used the advanced procedure of calibrating my Monitor with Prove-it which
allows me to measure the paper9s white in the light box (so I created for
different paper, different settings. (This is really brilliant in order to
get the white point of the monitor matching the paper white!)
So far, so good and here comes the but: But still not able to make
reasonable profiles for my Epson Pro 5500 which all of you know is using the
Epson Archival inks which suffer from strong metamerism.
I know the problem is not solved (metamerism = colour will shift
dramatically if one is holding the print under different light sources) with
profiles, but I am looking for a way to profile my machine so I can have a
match with my (calibrated) monitor in 6500 K or daylight. At the moment my
prints have a horrible green cast in 6500 K or daylight with using the
Standard Epson ICC profile and without making a strong Magenta adjustment in
Photoshop. (Now I just make a strong correction in Photoshop before
sending it to the printer: Magenta + 33! and I get an extremely good match,
but still I would like to avoid this procedure)
This is one of the answers I ve got so far from Itec (Colorblind):
"Pigment inks which have UV inhibitors require a UV spectrophotometer in
order to read properly. If your Spectrocam does not support UV then you will
have to have the unit upgraded. Non UV spectros will cause the colors to
phosphoresce when reading, this gives false readings, a metamerism
nightmare."
I am a bit confused if I look at the information from X-Rite measuring
devices, for example:
X-Rite DTP41UV AutoScan Reflection Spectrophotometer
High accuracy AutoScan Spectrophotometer with UV cut-off filter installed
UV filter minimizes effects of brightners found in some paper stocks.
So does my device have to read UV or not?
My Spectrocam does!
Is Rip software together with a profiling package the best bet for accurate
color printing?
Or do I need a Rip only for making color proofs before sending it to a
printer who needs the pictures in CMYK? So I don9t need a Rip if I just
would print on my own Pro 5500? Or is a Rip even in that case more accurate?
There are some new packages on the market for the Epson Pro 5500.
One is the new Rip from Epson and Best has now also a Rip for the Mac, which
supports the Epson Pro 5500
They have two different versions: Best Photo edition and Best Designer
edition M.
Does have anybody experience with those Rips9s? Or with Best?
Did anybody some comparisation between professional profiling packages?
Like comparing Colorblind with Praxisoft or Monaco?
Aurelon if offering a Rip that can be calibrated with a hardware device so I
don9t need another profiling package?
At the moment my package of Matchbox+ and the Spectrocam are not able to do
what I want.
Can anybody suggest me a better package?
Thanks for your attention!
(At the moment I am going to test a demo version from Praxisoft Compass
Profiler, if anybody is interested in my experience with this package,
please let me know)
Udo J. Machiels
Atmos Design
United Kingdom
email@hidden