Re: blues turning purple and reds turning orange
Re: blues turning purple and reds turning orange
- Subject: Re: blues turning purple and reds turning orange
- From: SKID Photography <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 16:42:58 -0400
- Organization: SKID Photography
On another list someone said that when needing to do instant judging of prints they used
a hair dryer on the print, for a 'quick cure'. I don't remember the timing involved, but
it did not take long at all.
Harvey Ferdschneider
partner, SKID Photography, NYC
bruce fraser wrote:
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At 2:13 PM -0400 7/28/02, Roger Breton wrote:
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>But, from a methodological standpoint, does that mean
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>that one should not be looking at the resultant print before 48 hours? To
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>compare apple with apple and make a critical decision about the quality of
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>the profile?
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Yes, that's pretty much what it means. It also means I'd question the
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usefulness of that printer/ink/paper combination for any
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color-managed workflow...
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You should probably save yourself some pain by establishing just when
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(and if) the print does in fact stabilize. Then you just have to live
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with the fact that that's how long it takes to make a print on that
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paper. Measure the profiling target once it's stable, and let your
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prints stabilize before you make any evaluations. It's a pain, but
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any other course means you're measuring a moving target with a rubber
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ruler.
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Some ink/paper combinations never stabilize. I hope this is not one of them.
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Different papers can take dramatically different times to cure. I've
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been working with the Epson 2200, and I've found that while the
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Premium Luster takes about 2 hours to cure, the Premium Semi Gloss
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takes a bit over 24 hours. It's not particularly intuitive. But
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taking the time to determine when the print reaches final color will
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save you a world of grief later on.
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Bruce
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