Re: Humans (and cameras and scanners) do not have a color gamut (?)
Re: Humans (and cameras and scanners) do not have a color gamut (?)
- Subject: Re: Humans (and cameras and scanners) do not have a color gamut (?)
- From: Wire ~ via colorsync-users <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 14:53:23 -0800
I'm probably mis-remembering. Ah, I recall, you stacked the IT8 on the
printed patches.
So sry, nevermind!
On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 2:48 PM Wire ~ <email@hidden> wrote:
> Yes, MonacoEZColor! That's it
>
> So what made a world-renowned color company think they could offer
> consumer inkjet printer profiling this way?
>
> And it worked for me well enough to allow custom ink and paper combos that
> looks way better than default, even if they might be imperfect by all kinds
> of measures.
>
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 2:38 PM Andrew Rodney via colorsync-users <
> email@hidden> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> > On Jan 10, 2020, at 3:27 PM, Wire ~ via colorsync-users <
>> email@hidden> wrote:
>> >
>> > Per this "where does the gamut not live" convo...
>>
>> Must you?
>>
>> > Back in the bronze age of consumer color I had a Monaco package that
>> made
>> > printer and scanner profiles.
>>
>> MonacoEZ? Whatever, scanner based printer profiles? No, it didn’t work
>> worth a damn making printer profiles.
>> Back in days even before that, at least there were actual tools like the
>> ColorTron (still have one) that could.
>>
>> > Why can an unprofiled scanner be used to make a printer profile,
>>
>> No.
>>
>> > yet it's common to create and use a IT8- ot Q60-referenced scanner
>> profile for photographic scans?
>>
>> What makes you assume an un-profiled scanner can make a printer profile
>> that’s useable? Have you ever tried to make a decent paper profile with a
>> scanner as some here have?
>> Tried the same thing with a recent version of SliverFast? I have, also a
>> printer profile created. Useless but created.
>>
>> Do you own a Spectrophotometer? Want a printer profile, use that; right
>> tool for the right job.
>>
>> Andrew Rodney
>> http://www.digitaldog.net/ <http://www.digitaldog.net/>
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