Re: HP dreamcolor screen, any opinions?
Re: HP dreamcolor screen, any opinions?
- Subject: Re: HP dreamcolor screen, any opinions?
- From: "edmund ronald" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:21:50 +0200
The scanned image appears vertically offset in places. As you state
this is repeating with different targets I would suspect a scanner
positioning malfunction.
To check my hypothesis, try turning that target by 90 degrees and rescanning ...
Edmund
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Robert Rock <email@hidden> wrote:
> An interesting problem I've encountered making profiles for a desktop
> scanner (EpsonExpression 1600), using ProfileMaker 5.0
>
> The reference images and screen shots are in a PDF here:
> http://www.bobrock.com/POTN/ScannerProfile.pdf
>
> In this instance, my scanned target is Kodak IT8 Q-60R2, with a version
> number of 2006:08.
> My screen shot of PM, page 1 of the PDF, shows my correctly chosen reference
> data of R2200608.Q60 and the scanned image of the target, in the screen shot
> called Kodak2.tif, and on page 2 of the PDF, is also correctly identified.
>
> But the first strange thing here is that if you look at the screen shot, the
> reference data thumbnail shows the grayscale wedge at the bottom, but if you
> look at the scanned image thumbnail, it shows a color bar. That's NOT in the
> image! Don't know if that's an issue, but then when I scan something and
> apply this profile, it just looks HORRIBLE. Something is obviously wrong.
>
> Thinking it was the reference data that might be corrupt, I downloaded again
> and still the same. I even tried using various other targets that I have,
> all from Kodak, all the same result. The scan was made with all color
> management turned off. After importing via TWAIN interface into Photoshop, I
> did nothing to the image, and saved it as a TIF with NO profile of any kind.
>
>
> Now, and this too is strange, it appears that when I use a Hutch target, the
> profile seems to work fine.
>
> Any thoughts? I even uninstalled and reinstalled PM5 but to no avail.
> Display profiling seems to work fine, haven't worked on any new printer
> profiles yet though.
>
> Thanks,
> Bob
>
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