re: profiling for chemistry vs ink prints
re: profiling for chemistry vs ink prints
- Subject: re: profiling for chemistry vs ink prints
- From: Peter Henry <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 16:41:29 +0200
hi andrew,
from the lightjet (former cymbolic sciences now oce) side I can tell you
that profiling a photographic device is not a proplem at all and works great
with good results certainly within the physical restrictions in the colour
gammut (difficult to get propper offset yellow and magenta and cyan)
If have the "know how" the the chemistry of your processor is nearly perfect
controllable. companies like illford or kodak have precisely procedures how
to do so. although the efforts can be relatively hight and monetary wise
intensive but possible.
we performed some profiles for a lightjet 430 in switzerland in order to
simulate cmyk press output and it was really not bad at all. (see above)
rgds.
Peter
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Oci Deutschland GmbH
Manager European Product Support Group
D-72336 Balingen
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Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 23:42:19 -0400
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From: Andrew Visscher <email@hidden>
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Subject: profiling for chemistry vs ink prints
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To: email@hidden
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I was recently told by a color lab that the reason they don't
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provide profiles for their photographic printers is that the
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chemistry process is not consistent enough for use with
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profiles, unlike inkjet prints where the ink stays consistent
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from print to print. Immediately after this comment, they
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suggested the old story of "we'll give you a print and you can
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adjust your monitor or make a PhotoShop action to adjust the
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image to match the print."
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This made no sense to me because if they can promise to
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continue to print such that the sample print will match the
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adjustments that they suggest, doesn't that mean they are able
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to keep their chemistry process consistent? Also, how could
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they even go about doing their own color correction for prints
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if their own process changes all the time?
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Not being an expert on this topic myself, I was hoping someone
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more knowledgeable could tell me what I'm missing here... Can
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digital photographic printers using a chemistry process be
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reliably profiled?
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