Total Mystery
Total Mystery
- Subject: Total Mystery
- From: "Anthony Sanna" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 20:59:06 -0500
I am having trouble with a lab here in town, trying to match color for
some big display LightJet prints.
While I was assembling the elements of the images - they're large
composite prints for a convention booth - I sent over a test file for
them to print. The test came back very dark and slightly off-color,
compared to my screen preview and 2200 prints. So I went over to the
lab to see what was going on and how they could get this print from my file.
I am not familiar with the LightJet, but they said that it's a closed-
loop calibration routine, and that there is no profile that can be used
to soft proof in Photoshop. The lab requires files be sent in
ColorMatch, which it then feeds to the LightJet.
The mystery is that the ColorMatch file on my profiled Sony CRT matches
my ColorByte/2200 proof, and the same file on their profiled LaCie Blue
matches the LightJet print, but their print, in no way, matches my
proof. How can this be? Because of deadlines, I can't switch printers
at this point, and the only solution that we've come up with is for me
to get everything balanced the way I like it, proof it, give them the
file and proof, and then have their guy adjust color and density to match.
FWIW: Their LaCie is calibrated with the LaCie puck at D65/1.8, and
mine is calibrated at D65/2.2 with a DTP92 and bassICColor Display.
They say that the LJ rip is about 4 years old, and that it has to be fed
ColorMatch raster files, and that a photographic printer (LightJet/
Lambda, I assume) cannot take PostScript.
Tony
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Anthony R. Sanna
SACO Foods, Inc.
1-800-373-7226
email@hidden
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