Profiling for saturated colours
Profiling for saturated colours
- Subject: Profiling for saturated colours
- From: Tony Kelly <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 22:38:44 +1100
Firstly, this is my first post to this list, although I've been following it
for many months. Thanks to all of you who contribute so much, it goes a long
way to giving some of us a kick start.
Now, to our dilemma ...
We have built profiles for our Epson printer which produce reasonable
results with "normal" images. However these same profiles just don't work
with images which exhibit very saturated colours, an example is intense reds
printing as pinks, bereft of any actual richness and exhibiting a pronounced
colour shift. The colours on screen are fine, but as soon as you apply the
profile certain colours just die a death.
Given that we are using a scanner based profiling package (Profiler RGB) and
don't have access to some of the dedicated hardware mentioned on this list
to read targets is there a way we can determine how to edit these profiles
to deal with these saturated colours, or am I looking at this problem the
wrong way.
Should we need to develop a new profile to cope with highly saturated
images? Or should we look at modifying our existing profile to deal with
"all" images.
Lastly we have an X-Rite DTP32 (yes unfortunately not a DTP41) is there an
application which would enable us to use this to create profiles? Or at
least put it to some use perhaps in veryfing targets or editing existing
profiles. Any clues or flat "No's" ?
Thanks for any suggestions, have a peaceful & enjoyable X-mas.
Tony Kelly
Melbourne, Australia