Re: ImagePrint
Re: ImagePrint
- Subject: Re: ImagePrint
- From: "Cris Daniels" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 16:02:41 -0300
>
That's why Image Print and
others recommend staying with the built in set ups.
The built in print recipes are built just right for the particular printer and
ink combo. It would be almost impossible to improve upon them so your right,
stay with what works.
>
The notions that a
spectro is required to have good output from many of the rips is nonsense.
Its not nonsense at all. All of the RIPs I've used that require linearization
need some sort of device to actually do the linearization process with. You
can't possibly do this kind of thing visually so you'll need a DTP41,
Spectrocam, Eyeone, or Spectrolino to dial in Wasatch, Onyx, Best Color,
etc....
Say I use Wasatch SoftRIP, if I am using the included profiles and they are
built for the "linearized" printer, you need to linearize the printer before
thier profiles are going to even be close. Doing this with a unit like the
DTP41 works just fine, this gets your particular printer in tune with the one
they made the profiles on (if you believe that this all works). You can't use
canned density curves on these RIPs if they have built in facility to
linearize, while the device drift on machines like an Epson 10000 isn't large,
the difference between different 10000's is enought to preclude using canned
lin curves. If you do all this and the profiles stink, you'll need to make
new ones. ImagePrint works extremely well with the vast majority of printers
and you generally don't need to generate your own profiles. Where I have seen
this not work is with the consumer printers. I have ImagePrint desktop running
a 1280 and 2000P, the included ImagePrint profiles for the 2000P are about 30
miles off, none of them are usable. There is only so much Colorbyte can do
with these desktops printing all over the map (massive delta e between
printers) so custom profiles may be in order if your printer is far from the
unit Colorbyte profiles at their skunkworks. The Stylus Pro printers work a
bit better, my 7600's (1 matte black and 1 photo black) work excellent with
the included profiles. The only time I make others is for a new media type
that isn't profiled. The Fuji Pictrography has the built in calibration so the
included profiles work really well on the PG3000 as well at least from my
experience.
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