Re: Profiling software
Re: Profiling software
- Subject: Re: Profiling software
- From: Peter Figen <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:51:19 -0700
- Organization: Peter Figen Photography
As someone who purchased Praxisoft CompassProfile partially on the promise that there would be a free CMYK upgrade down the road, I am overjoyed (not) by the fact that they have finally given up in their effort. After countless (well not quite) times of being told that the impending upgrade was just around the corner or just a few weeks away, they have finally decided that they can't provide the CMYK support people want from their original product and have now
licensed the Monaco high end profiling application that will be sold under Praxi's name. Of course, they can't offer this as a free upgrade to those they had promised them to, but are willing to offer the Monaco product at a greatly reduced price.
My question: Has anyone here used and compared the Monaco package with ProfileMaker or the new print profiling packages from ProfileCity? I've heard conflicting reports about Monaco. Of course, the folks at Praxi say it's great, and the Profile City stuff is so new that I haven't heard anything, although I do like ICC Scan.
I've been very satisfied with CompassProfile for RGB profiles on photographic outputs like Fujix, LIghtjet, LVT, Chromira, etc, but have been far less satisfied with the profiles it generates for the latest batch of Epson printers. If the images have any significant tonality in the 3/4 tones, there are very harsh transitions that are unacceptable. It appears to be something that Epson is doing differently in their RGB to CMYK conversions, but they're not telling and
no one at Praxi has any ideas. Profiles made for the EX and 1200 are fine, it's just the 1270 where I'm having the problem.
My first needs are an RGB profiling application that can successfully deal with the Epson driver and my second needs are a CMYK application with full control over black generation and ink limits.
Peter Figen
Peter Figen Photography
Los Angeles, Ca.