Re: Questions about Status T and E
Re: Questions about Status T and E
- Subject: Re: Questions about Status T and E
- From: Marcelo Copetti <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 08:47:31 -0300
Good morning,
OK, what are the rules to get a good gray balance with Status E?
I think is necessary to have all inks (CMY) with a very similar ink
density value.
Is that correct?
Thanks for your attention and help
On quinta-feira, set 26, 2002, at 21:44 Brazil/East, Terry Wyse wrote:
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on 9/26/02 11:52 AM, neil snape wrote:
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> According to Best no differences should result between status E or T
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> in the
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> base linearisations. I believe that the Gretag i1 and Spectro lino's
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> will
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> only make status E base lin values , but that could have changed
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> recently.
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I think it was the other way around Neil. Prior to 4.6.x, they only
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supported Status T for the Eye-One and 'Lino. Now both Status T and E
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are
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supported, as they did prior to v4.5.x. Personally, even though I'm in
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the
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U.S., I preferred Status E for creating a baselin as it was much
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easier to
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get a "gray balanced" baselin prior to profiling. Status T was always
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a lot
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of guesswork to get reasonably balanced CMY ink limits.
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Lately I've been going back and forth between BestColor RIPs and the
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fairly
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new RAMpage RIP ICC Option. I've really sort of abandoned the whole
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notion
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of using density to determine ink limits and have gone with evaluating
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Lab
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values along with an eye of newt and a dash of salt (IOW, using a
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little
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magic)! for the last several inkjet printers this has worked better,
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especially for the "quality" of the yellow in the proof simulation.
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Before,
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I would always fight a scum dot of cyan in my pure "press" yellows
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because
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of the "orange" nature of the Epson pure yellow. As a result of using
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Lab
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values to set limits, I'm getting the cleanest yellows ever. I don't
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claim
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to really know/understand the science of what I'm doing, all I know is
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I'm
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getting much better results in the field where it counts.
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>
Terry
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