Re: Need Advice
Re: Need Advice
- Subject: Re: Need Advice
- From: Neil Barstow <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:50:40 +0000
Hi Jim
On Thursday, February 20, 2003 at 6:35 am,
Jim Goshorn, email@hidden, wrote:
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HI,
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I know that without seeing the print in question you can't be sure of an
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answer but I need an idea of what might have gone wrong.
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I went for a demo the other day of a 7600 and a RIP for it. Not having a
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profiler yet (on the list of things I need), I used Apple's standard
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Cinema profile.
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The resulting print (ultrachrome on premium luster) looks good for
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color balance (no apparent shifts in highlights, shadows or grays). The
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highlight and shadow detail is there and very close to the original.
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However, the print looks dull. The yellows, reds and oranges lack
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saturation. Greens lack some seperation compared to the original.
1:
I suspect the file may not be as saturated as you think.
Once the Cinema is properly profiled the saturation and <pop> does
decrease in my experience when compared to the Apple built profile.
Of course you are never going to get quite the luminace and pop from a
print that you see on screen with a saturated original, Photoshop
softproofing [on a properly profiled screen]
That's the first thing to try.
2:
You might well benefit from trying the 7600 direct - with a good profile and
86 [lose?] the RIP. If you are printing to that from photoshop and
don't need postscript [or very different non driver listed paper
stocks] then the Epson driver is probably the best way to go.
I hear of people weekly who were persuaded to buy a RIP with a printer
because the printer supposedly worked better with it. It is certainly
not always so.
So save the RIP cash [unless you have to regularly print postscript]
and buy integratedcolorsolutions basICColor Display with the eyeOne.
You'll not look back.
all the best
neil
Neil Barstow
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