Re: Epson driver color management, the promised follow-up
Re: Epson driver color management, the promised follow-up
- Subject: Re: Epson driver color management, the promised follow-up
- From: Joachim Euler <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 20:21:06 +0000
Here is the promised follow-up on what I could do for the customer.
First a summary for those wo don't remember the situation I was facing four
weeks ago:
A customer wanted me to profile his monitor (Appe Cinema), scanner (Nikon
Coolscan 4000), and printer (Epson Stylus 1270). I got good results with
both the monitor and the scanner, though the Nikon SW version 3.0 he was
running then did not embed the custom profile (it accepted the custom
profile only as "system profile" when activated in ColorSync control panel).
I had a hard time, though, with the printer which produced a ridiculously
high dot gain out-of-the-box with its Quickdraw driver's settings "no
adjustment".
After doing some research (thanks again to all of you who helped me out in
this point) and tests with my Pro 7000, we fixed a new date for another
attempt (his employer is a Formula-1 photographer so the ideal time is any
friday directly before the race).
Meanwhile he updated the scanning software to the most recent release and
told me he was getting much better results (with a unprofiled quality which
he described as OK) using a color space called "Nikon AppleCPS 4.0" which is
also his working space in Photoshop. OK, I can live with it (though I would
not necessarily want to work with a D65-based RGB which I told him why:-).
As for the printer I found out that a good control over dot gain without
losing too much of the printer's gamut is to use a setting called "EPSON
calibration" and choosing between gammas 1.5, 1.8 and 2.2 (lession learned:
Do not fear to play around with the driver settings as--if carefully
used--they can minimize problems). We printed a ProfileMaker test chart with
gamma 1.8 which I read in after lunch (his boss' wife had prepared a very
delicious meal as usually:-) allowing at least some drying time.
I then created a profile which indeed needed a bit of optimization (grey
balance, yellows) but we came to a fine result--without the necessity of
buying a RIP software.
Probably this may help some of you facing the same struggle.
Best,
Jo Euler
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