Re: ImagePrint
Re: ImagePrint
- Subject: Re: ImagePrint
- From: Udo <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 21:34:04 +0100
Hello Chris,
It seems you know a lot about the Image Print Rip from Colorbyte, so I am
directing my question on this forum to you.
Following is still not clear to me:
If one does have a high end calibration / profiling kit like Spectrolino /
Profilemaker 4.1 / SpectroscanT table, is one able to make proper CMYK
profiles for this Rip if one is using third party inks and papers for which
there are no profiles included by Colorbyte?
It sound all very nice this RIP, but I do like to have flexibility doing my
own profiling (IN CMYK!!!) so that I am not bound / forced to use Epson
stuff.
Thanks for any more information,
Regards,
Udo J. Machiels
Atmos Design
UK
on 21/9/02 8:02 pm, Cris Daniels at email@hidden wrote:
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> That's why Image Print and
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others recommend staying with the built in set ups.
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The built in print recipes are built just right for the particular printer and
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ink combo. It would be almost impossible to improve upon them so your right,
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stay with what works.
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> The notions that a
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spectro is required to have good output from many of the rips is nonsense.
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Its not nonsense at all. All of the RIPs I've used that require linearization
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need some sort of device to actually do the linearization process with. You
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can't possibly do this kind of thing visually so you'll need a DTP41,
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Spectrocam, Eyeone, or Spectrolino to dial in Wasatch, Onyx, Best Color,
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etc....
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Say I use Wasatch SoftRIP, if I am using the included profiles and they are
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built for the "linearized" printer, you need to linearize the printer before
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thier profiles are going to even be close. Doing this with a unit like the
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DTP41 works just fine, this gets your particular printer in tune with the one
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they made the profiles on (if you believe that this all works). You can't use
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canned density curves on these RIPs if they have built in facility to
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linearize, while the device drift on machines like an Epson 10000 isn't large,
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the difference between different 10000's is enought to preclude using canned
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lin curves. If you do all this and the profiles stink, you'll need to make
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new ones. ImagePrint works extremely well with the vast majority of printers
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and you generally don't need to generate your own profiles. Where I have seen
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this not work is with the consumer printers. I have ImagePrint desktop running
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a 1280 and 2000P, the included ImagePrint profiles for the 2000P are about 30
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miles off, none of them are usable. There is only so much Colorbyte can do
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with these desktops printing all over the map (massive delta e between
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printers) so custom profiles may be in order if your printer is far from the
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unit Colorbyte profiles at their skunkworks. The Stylus Pro printers work a
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bit better, my 7600's (1 matte black and 1 photo black) work excellent with
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the included profiles. The only time I make others is for a new media type
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that isn't profiled. The Fuji Pictrography has the built in calibration so the
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included profiles work really well on the PG3000 as well at least from my
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experience.
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