Re: Shadow detail - printer profiles
Re: Shadow detail - printer profiles
- Subject: Re: Shadow detail - printer profiles
- From: Derek Cooper <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 09:32:26 -0400
On May 13, 2007, at 5:23 AM, edmund ronald wrote:
Thing is, I place smoothness before color accuracy for my own photo
work, and I tend to give others what I myself like most. Color breaks
in faces are unforgivable.
True, but if you're doing art repro work, colour accuracy is a MUST.
I have some clients who look at a proof and go, "That colour isn't
right!" I say, "Sure it is!" Then I read the original with a spectro,
compare to actual, and say, "Oh, you're right - they area bit
different." And when I saw a bit, I mean a bit!!! Some clients have
an incredible eye for colour, but if you spent months slaving over a
piece of art, you'd know the colours quite well too! :)
Small patch sets -eg the standard 343 Xrite target- yield very smooth
profiles with decent shadow detail.
I tried the 343 target with basICColor's Catch and CMYKick with
fantastic results in a quick test. More testing needed.
Anyway, reading a few thousand patches with the iSis XT is much easier
now thanks to its huge maw and bar coded targets.
Here's a question - why doesn't GMG / X-Rite build in an error
detection aspect to PMP? For example, you print the target, then scan
in the ~4,600 colour patches using the iO. Inevitably, you are going
to read a few patches incorrectly, even if you're using patch mode. I
have scanned targets twice, then fed the results to Measure to see
where there are differences, and it can pick them out. However, re-
scanning individuals patches and editing the measurement file can be
tedious. Would be nice if GMB "warned" you of suspicious reads, and
re-read them for you. They / you could set a threshold between what
should be read and what is read, and if the threshold is exceeded, it
re-scans the patch.
Just an idea.
Derek
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