Re: ICC Profiles and EPSON 5000
Re: ICC Profiles and EPSON 5000
- Subject: Re: ICC Profiles and EPSON 5000
- From: Glenn Kowalski <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 08:11:51 -0500
Marco,
It sounds like he is not profiling the 5000 itself, but loading a
target profile, then modifying it to compensate for the lack of a
profile for the 5000. Kind of like creating a device link profile but
with only half the information! This doesn't sound like an optimum
way to work and very hit or miss. ICC profiles are supposed to remove
the guess work and fudging around, not create it.
Glenn Kowalski
Studio 405
From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
Scott Griswold <email@hidden> wrote:
I had worked with the Epson 5000 for nearly 4 years with a Fiery RIP and had
it matching a Matchprint easily within 95% accuracy. The Key is to use a
good CMYK profile from the device to are targeting and load it in as a
simulation using Colorwise pro Tools. Then in Colorwise, you adjust the
curves for that profile until the output matches an evaluation image from
the target device. This takes some rounds of adjusting but is certainly
attainable.
Scott, I don't work with the Fiery RIP software any longer, but, just for my
own information, I would like to hear more details about the procedure you
are outlining, specially the part where you mention loading a good CMYK
profile as a simulation using Colorwise Pro Tools. The questions that come
to mind, from having used the Fiery RIP package in the past, are of this
kind:
- How do you obtain a good CMYK profile from a device that does not allow
you to switch off all controls, or to determine ink limits or quantities, or
paper profiles?
- What test chart(s) do you print to generate the profile (e.g., the 3.5
CMYK)?
- What exactly are the steps of the procedure of "loading the profile in"?