[APML] (fwd) Re: filmscanners: Custom ICC printer profiles

[Herm <hermperez@worldnet.att.net>]

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Herm

On Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:02 +0100 (BST), TonySleep@halftone.co.uk (Tony Sleep)
wrote:

On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 23:01:05 -0400  Alan Eckert (aeckert@cpcug.org) wrote:

> Forgive this somewhat OT post, but I've done an IT8 calibration with =
> Silverfast on my SS4000 and I like what I see on the screen (it matches =
> the slides well), but I can't trust what comes out of the 1270 printer =
> to look like what's on the screen.

I have wasted maybe 100hrs mucking about with profiles and stuff on a 1200, 
read shedloads, tried the various things Ian Lyons suggests, and got 
nowhere. All I have to show for it is 200+ rotten test prints. Not one was 
acceptable.

Apart from anything else I came to the conclusion that CM within the Epson 
driver is completely broken. So Pixl or any other profiles are not likely 
to help me. The 1270 may be better.

A couple of months ago I gave up with all the autopilot approaches, and set 
about merely doing manual adjustments in the printer driver (CMY, 
saturation, contrast). This has worked far, far better than anything else : 
prints are now as close to the screen image as is possible within the 
limits of a different gamut. And it's free.

Regards 

Tony Sleep
http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online portfolio & exhibit; + film scanner info 
& comparisons


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