Re: Epson 4000 & Custom Profiles
Re: Epson 4000 & Custom Profiles
- Subject: Re: Epson 4000 & Custom Profiles
- From: neil snape <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 05:06:16 +0100
on 3/01/04 22:53, Dale Hoffman wrote :
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The January/Feb issue of "The Big Picture" (page 21) contains a
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review of the Epson 4000 (more of a press release). In the article an
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Epson senior product manager asserts that the Epson 4000's RGB ICC
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profiles make custom profiles unnecessary. Is this marketing or
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something else?
This printer comes is the first Epson printer I've seen that has a degree of
accuracy to the above over enthusiastic claims. It has canned profiles that
fit a global ICC colorimetric workflow to produce results on their specific
papers that are in a rounded way that will suffice for most users needs
limited to those specific papers.
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Partial quote below. Note second paragraph - what might be meant by
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"custom profiles have certain flaws"?
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"Less reliance on custom profiles: . . . photographers who use Epson
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inks and media in the Stylus Pro 4000 can avoid spending additional
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time and money to obtain custom profiels either through online
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services or with additional profiling software.
Since the canned profiles are nicely adjusted profiles incorporating a lot
of tuning for linearisation compensation , you'll find that to better the
quality of the minimalist driver level controls and or lack of linearisation
control/tools , you'll bear the load of a lot of hours work to better these
canned profiles. Keep in mind that these are for certain Epson papers , any
third party or unsupported papers will have to be treated in your usual
way.
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"Custom profiles have certain flaws . . . They dramatically compress
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the printer gamut to ensure the profile's accuracy. We [Epson] were
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able to use less compression to ensure a wider color gamut while
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still ensuring the accuracy of the profile."
Nice way of saying we'll offer you no way of linearisation therefore by
using adapted faux color spaces / heavily modified profiles you'll have a
chance a better color than your custom profile without linearisation /
editing.
This is akin to saying use the canned stuff which is very good or go onto
something better as in whatever good rip developer you choose.
PS The 4000 is not much different than the 7600/9600 in color. Some slight
droplet size changes, ability to run double inkset 2X CMYK for speed
printing etc. The problem of printing on glossy stock though has never been
solved by Epson on these printers with Ultrachrome inks and their papers.
The output is still best on matte or luster (Pearl) where bronzing
(solarisation) is still present. Finally Epson have a large format printer
boxed into a desktop size that has more or less the same qualities as the
X6000 series but is in no way revolutionary.
Neil Snape nsnape @ noos.fr neil_snape @ mac.com
http://mapage.noos.fr/nsnape
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