Re: Epson 5500 and BESTColor
Re: Epson 5500 and BESTColor
- Subject: Re: Epson 5500 and BESTColor
- From: Kevin <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:05:08 -0400
on 7/24/01 2:23 PM, Terry Wyse at email@hidden wrote:
I use the Bestcolor rip on an Epson 7500 and even though it wasn't a quick
set-up I've managed to get pretty good results with it. I've done all my
own profiling and can't comment on any of the canned profiles but the total
ink limits you mentioned for 1440 dpi are certainly not out out of the
"normal". On a custom profile I made for Epson's Premium Lustre photo paper
I ended up with a total ink of 100%. The output looks terrific.
Also I can't imagine that starting your black earlier would help matters
much. Certainly I think it would degrade you image quality with what would
look like a very coarse screening.
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on 7/24/01 1:22 PM, Scott Griswold wrote:
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> Has anyone else used BestColor Designer Edition on the Mac? I have been
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> testing it for about a week and can't seem to get a good quality gradation
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> with the stock profiles they supply. The colors seem very accurate, but gray
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> ramps are posterized in both color and density.
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I'm neck deep at the moment trying to profile an Epson 5500 using the
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BESTColor PC version. So far, it's not a very pretty picture at all. I'm
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getting severe banding/posterization especially in fleshtones. I started
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with BESTColor's supplied profiles which looked bad and then started
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building my own. At BESTColor's suggestion, I started out using it at
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1440dpi. I'm at a point now where I'm simply bagging 1440 and going with
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720dpi which gives me much more acceptable results although at the expense
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of slightly reduced color gamut.
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For what it's worth, I think at least a part of the problem is the extremely
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low total ink limit you need to 1440 (in the 130-140% range). When I switch
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to 720dpi, I'm in the more "normal" range of 160-180%. The 5500 also seems
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to require much more black in the profile (lower K start point and more
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GCR).
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Anybody that's getting the BESTColor RIP to work with the 5500 care to
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share?
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Terry
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Terence L. Wyse
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Color Geekus Emeritus
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All Systems Integration, Inc.
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http://www.allsystems.com
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