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: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:19:52 +0200
Robert, can you use www.yousendit.com to email yourself the raw scans
of the targets -Kodak, Hutch, and the post the links here ?
Or just put the raw scans on the server so we can download them ? And
please also post the reference files. Thank you.
Edmund
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Robert Rock <email@hidden> wrote:
> Edmund,
> I've replaced the referenced PDF with a new one, this one includes my second
> test which I mentioned...using a HUTCH target. The third image in the PDF
> shows the ProfileMaker screen capture, selecting the correct corresponding
> reference file and image, and then the 4th image in the PDF shows how a scan
> looks after being the assigned that HUTCH profile. It's perfect. So what's
> with the Kodak targets? I am really baffled.
>
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: edmund ronald [mailto:email@hidden]
> Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 8:22 AM
> To: Robert Rock
> Cc: ColorSync
> Subject: Re: HP dreamcolor screen, any opinions?
>
> 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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