RE: Color Calibration Adjustments
RE: Color Calibration Adjustments
- Subject: RE: Color Calibration Adjustments
- From: Roger <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:28:07 -0500
William,
So this is more than a plain 5200 printer, at least from the point of view
of the special toners/dyes you're using with it. Can you post a sample of
the content of the .cmm file here for everyone to see? Is the content in
some kind of text format file or is it encoded in binary? If you can view
its content with a text processor like Notepad.exe or Wordpad.exe or just
MS-Word, then we may be able to figure out what it being done to the raw
color signals. Worth trying.
Roger
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> I realize I should have included some background information.
>
> This is a thermal Dye sublimation process. The toner is specially
> made to sublimate at 400 degrees fahrenheit and therefore transfer to
> anything containing polyester type molecules.
>
> The downside is that it's not natural color. Print Red, Green And
> Blue, and even if it looks like the screen colors, once you press it
> you won't get quite what you wanted.
>
> So that's what the .cmm profile is for. It adjusts the color
> profile either in your software or in your operating system so as to
> compensate for that effect. Thus the printed colors will look wrong,
> but be correct once pressed.
>
> When used with a Mac, the supplied color profile is not quite right,
> as I mentioned. I did track down the original creator of the
> profile. He said he didn't have a Mac to try to refine the profile
> with. He agreed to call on a friend who uses Macs and look into
> it, but no response, and that was last Fall.
>
> I obviously don't speak .cmm, but I was hoping that someone with a
> color meter could check the printouts and tell me how much to tweak
> the Adobe Photoshop settings to approximate the correction.
>
> William Carr
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