Giles,
I had a thought today
a generic profile is a bit like buying spectacles from a filling
station or chemist, they may suit your vision, they may not, but trying
them unsuccessfully wouldn't persuade you that spectacles are a flawed
concept?
On Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 3:50 pm,
Giles Stokoe, giles-at-stokoe.co.uk, wrote:
> I totally understand that the only way to get a truly accurate and
> predictable result is to have monitor and printer calibrated, as they
> will all be unique to a greater or lesser degree (if something can be
> 'less' unique?). What I expect from a generic profile is similar to
> what I would hope for in a proof print from my own black and white
> darkroom: black at black, white at white (after all 0%C 0%M 0%Y 0%K
> is pretty unambiguous),
well, yes, but different printers will print it differently.
BTW, you're not sending CMYK to the Epson are you??
> and everything else roughly in the right place in between. Then I
> know whether it is worth spending time (and money) refining the
> output...
do you mean whether the paper stock is worth continuing with? That is
indeed an issue, it can be very difficult to appreciate the qualities
of a paper and ink combination without a profile - I guess that's why
folk like Marrutt have had Thomas and I working on that for them.
I suppose the only easy solution is to look at other's work on the same
stock.
As i said before, I think the generic profile you got is for a
different type of 1290[earlier], not the 1290 S, there seems to have
been a hardware update [but of course Epson don't tell us]. So, I
submit that it's not a generic profile any more, it's now a profiole
for a different printer.
in this case
> seeing the potential of the setup and deciding whether to spend money on
> perfect calibration.
Regards
NeilB
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