Re: Strategy for fine art/photographic quality prints Part1
Re: Strategy for fine art/photographic quality prints Part1
- Subject: Re: Strategy for fine art/photographic quality prints Part1
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 09:06:49 EDT
Part 1:
In a message dated 6/19/01 2:35:30 PM, email@hidden writes:
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I have been following the Colorsync List for over six months now. Many
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thanks to all those who contribute, especially to CDT, Henrik, Andrew etc
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who must devote so much of their time to the cause. I have found the list
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enormously helpful and informative (and entertaining).
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Thanks, we try to keep it amusing...
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I am not a color professional - I earn my living as a self-employed architect
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in the UK.
Ah, I recently retired from that same position... there's definately some
connection between architecture and color management, just as there is to
musical composition and font design...
But my abiding interest is photography, primarily landscape.
My weakness as well, though I do shoot buildings once in a while... <G>
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I would like to produce fine art + photographic quality inkjet prints,
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and probably prepare the text/layouts for a series of books I have
(wishfully)
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planned. I am some way down the road, but I could do with some advice on
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the direction to take now. As this is not a money making exercise, I have
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to balance my budget against my enthusiasm.
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Reading ahead, it sounds like you have what you need for this, in terms of
equipment and applications...
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First my experience so far:
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Photoshop 5.5 (now upgrading to 6)
V6 will be handy for proofing your images for prepress...
, Quark XPress 3.1, Adobe InDesign.
I know its not yet well accepted, but I do all my publications in InDesign,
is a much more color managable application than Quark, and has great screen
preview capabilities...
Macintosh
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G3 333, 500Mb RAM.
That should do it...
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I have an Epson Photo 1200. I have experimented with Epson papers, Lyson
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Fotonic archival inks and papers, and sundry other papers.
I'm a big fan of Epson priried the inks and papers from the likes of Jon Cone
in the US. I have
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also experimented with Quad Black inks on an Epson 1160.
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I've worked with Cone's Piezo Black and White system and find it to be the
best of the quadtone systems, and easiest to use, but most expensive. You
might want to consider Lyson's Small Gamut inks, as they offer more control
of image tone, and should be much less expensive, especially in the UK...
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Dissatisfied with Epsons built-in color management, with their canned
profiles,
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and with the profiles supplied by Lyson for their archival products, I
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embarked on building my own profiles.
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Definately...
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I first used Matchlock/ColorVison9s Profiler RGB. The results were not
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encouraging. Given the extent of the over-inking and bleeding on the printed
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target, it is hard to imagine how the scanner based measurements could
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be accurate.
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Hmmm... I've profiled the 1200, and lots of other Epson's with great results,
and have profled Lyson's Fotonic inks (which do bleed more than Epson ink on
many glossy papers) with ProfilerRGB as well. Were you restricting the ink by
using the backlit film setting? That is often necessary... You definately
shoud not be getting excessive target bleed!