Re: Profiling for saturated colours
Re: Profiling for saturated colours
- Subject: Re: Profiling for saturated colours
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:20:04 EST
In a message dated 12/21/01 6:44:43 AM, email@hidden writes:
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Now, to our dilemma ...
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We have built profiles for our Epson printer which produce reasonable
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results with "normal" images. However these same profiles just don't work
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with images which exhibit very saturated colours, an example is intense
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reds
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printing as pinks, bereft of any actual richness and exhibiting a pronounced
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colour shift. The colours on screen are fine, but as soon as you apply
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the
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profile certain colours just die a death.
There are certain colors that are just plain out of gamut on certain
papers... if you are using uncoated art paper, for example, that might be
part of the problem.
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Given that we are using a scanner based profiling package (Profiler RGB)
With ColorVision profiles, specificly, using the saturation intent will offer
brighter colors without trashing your normal image colors...
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and
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don't have access to some of the dedicated hardware mentioned on this list
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to read targets is there a way we can determine how to edit these profiles
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to deal with these saturated colours, or am I looking at this problem the
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wrong way.
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Upgrading to ProfilerPRO so you can use a spectro with your software will
probably make the biggest difference. Scanner based profiles aren't as
accurate, and don't offer as broad a gamut.
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Should we need to develop a new profile to cope with highly saturated
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images? Or should we look at modifying our existing profile to deal with
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"all" images.
Its tough to add gamut to a profile; thats not really what profile editors
are for. I assume you have already tried simple increasing the saturation
slider setting in ProfilerRGB as you build the profile. If that doesn't fix
it, then profile editing is unlikely to solve your problem.
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Lastly we have an X-Rite DTP32 (yes unfortunately not a DTP41) is there
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an
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application which would enable us to use this to create profiles? Or at
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least put it to some use perhaps in veryfing targets or editing existing
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profiles. Any clues or flat "No's" ?
The 32 is really for liniarizing color copiers, not building ICC profiles.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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