Re: How to simulate Epsonb 9600 on Xerox 7700 with Device Link
Re: How to simulate Epsonb 9600 on Xerox 7700 with Device Link
- Subject: Re: How to simulate Epsonb 9600 on Xerox 7700 with Device Link
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 07:38:46 -0500
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I wish to simulate (create the closest match I can) an Epson 9600UC on a
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Xerox 7700.
Wow! Did you ever inspect each of these two devices gamuts in a 3D gamut
viewer utility like Chromix or GamutWorks? You'd see that this is an
exercice in futility -- no insult intended. Depending on which substrate you
print to, the 9600UC has a super large gamut, about the size of a football
field. Whereas with the 7700, regardless of the substrate you print to, in
my experience, the gamut is *considerably* smaller, about the size of
basketball court. Because the toner used in the 7700 have very low chroma.
If you could use the new 7750 you'd be in better shape, I'd say. You'd end
up with a gamut about the size of a hockey arean but still *way* short of
the colorimetric requirement to match the gamut size of a 9600UC!
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I have a good custom profile for both. I wish to use a device
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link profile ane IQueue as the workflow tools. I create the Device Link
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Profile in MonacoPROFILER (Epson9600 profile-to-Xerox7700 Profile)
Yes, that's OK.
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So here is what I 'think';
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File gets converted into the colorspace for the 9600 before printing.
From what? From a press or analog film-based proofing system?
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Same
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converted file runs thru IQueue with the device link profile and then gets
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printed on the Xerox 7700. What of the rendering intents?
Not much choice but to go perceptual. But that's still not the choice you'd
want to use which would be RelCol. Depending on what your objective is.
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There is a lot more going on in the workflow but I am trying to get the
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basic flow of achieving the best match, before I factor in the other
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processes.
See my above comment on your chances to achieve the 'best match' with this
combination of printers.
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Is this most ideal? Should I be using the 'simulated printer' instead?. In
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the end, the file for the 9600 will be ripped into a tiff and then
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repurposed for the Xerox to show what the 9600 print will look like before
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it is actually imaged.
You have the workflow OK. But you don't have the correct devices to do this
workflow right, in my opinion. Are you trying to save money by using the
7700 instead of the 9600? What is the quality of the match you get so far?
I'd be surprised if they'd be anything remotely ressembling the 9600UC.
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Cedric Briscoe
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Treetop Publishing,Inc.
Roger Breton | Laval, Canada | email@hidden
http://pages.infinit.net/graxx
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