Re: Epson Printer Driver - sRGB - ARGB
Re: Epson Printer Driver - sRGB - ARGB
- Subject: Re: Epson Printer Driver - sRGB - ARGB
- From: Ernst Dinkla <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 12:54:44 +0200
This explanation should be another argument never to use printer color
management for color.
Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst
Dinkla Grafische Techniek
Quad, piëzografie, giclée
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On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 12:35 PM, email@hidden <
email@hidden> wrote:
> I looked at what Epson have to say online, apparently sRGB is a term
> for contrast increase... I guess they are trying to come up with a system
> which will work for professionals and novices (and managing to confuse
> everyone in the process)
>
> EPSON Standard (sRGB) - Increases the contrast in images. Use this setting
> for color photographs.
> Adobe RGB - Matches image color to the Adobe RGB.
>
> EPSON Vivid - Select this setting to enrich the blue and green tones in
> prints. Because this setting reproduces blue and green tones that cannot be
> displayed by your monitor, your prints may differ from the screen image
> when this function is selected.
> Charts and Graphs - Intensifies the colors, and lightens the midtones and
> highlights of an image. Use this setting for presentation graphics, such as
> charts and graphs.
>
> Best
> Matthew
>
>
> On 14 April 2015 at 10:43 Ernst Dinkla <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> To my knowledge the printer color management can not detect what the
> assigned color space is in the data it gets from the application you print
> from. So it offers two choices of color space and expects the user to send
> image data with the corresponding color space assigned. The application
> should not perform color management but allow the choice: Let Printer do
> color management. No rendering in the application should have effect then.
> The image data should still have the color space assigned up to the the
> printer color management but I doubt it will be recognised. The printer
> color management has a default rendering but I doubt it includes BPC. Based
> on experience with HP Z3100 and Z3200 drivers. The PS driver of the last
> model offers some CMYK assigned spaces as choices too.
>
> Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst
>
> http://www.pigment-print.com/spectralplots/spectrumviz_1.htm
> December 2014 update, 700+ inkjet media white spectral plots
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:53 AM, email@hidden <
> email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Dear all
> I have struggled to understand a setting in the Epson printer driver for
> many
> years. (Yes my life is that boring).
> It seems to be a fairly universal setting (R2400, 3880, 4800)
> When using Printer Manages Colors > Print Settings > Color Settings, there
> is
> the option to select EPSON Standard (sRGB) or Adobe RGB (Along with Vivid
> and
> charts and Graphs).
> This setting does seem to have a slight effect on the printed image. An
> ARGB
> image seems to print slightly more accurately when the setting is Adobe
> RGB
> (Using the Pixl test image).
>
> Does anyone know why it is there and what it is for?
>
> The vivid etc suggests to me that it is some kind of rendering intent, if
> so why
> is it called sRGB etc and why have 2 rendering intents in the workflow
> (The
> rendering intents are not greyed out in the Photoshop Printer Window)?
>
> Best
> Matthew
>
>
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