Re: Inkjet recommendations (WAS: Re: Pentax High End DSLR)

2004-05-17 Thread David Mann
On May 17, 2004, at 2:16 AM, William Robb wrote: There is really no such thing as a profile in this instance. Really, find out what colour spaces the lab recognizes, and choose the one that is best for you. If they can't tell you, then the default profile to use is sRGB. In the case of my lab,

Re: Inkjet recommendations (WAS: Re: Pentax High End DSLR)

2004-05-17 Thread Frantisek Vlcek
DM I'm not too worried about this as the results I've had have been quite DM good despite some gamut clipping (particularly blues and yellows) as my DM source images exceed the limits of sRGB. If I was looking for fine-art There is this webpage which has diagram of the gamut of Frontier and

Re: Inkjet recommendations (WAS: Re: Pentax High End DSLR)

2004-05-16 Thread Frantisek Vlcek
DM I would appreciate that. If there are separate profiles for matte and DM glossy paper I would like to get hold of both. Today I am getting wedding proofs from them, so I will ask. DM My friend uses Profile Prism, which first profiles your scanner then DM uses that to profile your printer. I

Re: Inkjet recommendations (WAS: Re: Pentax High End DSLR)

2004-05-16 Thread Frantisek Vlcek
I would appreciate that. If there are separate profiles for matte WR and glossy paper I would like to get hold of both. WR There is really no such thing as a profile in this instance. WR Really, find out what colour spaces the lab recognizes, and choose WR the one that is best for you. WR If

Re: Inkjet recommendations (WAS: Re: Pentax High End DSLR)

2004-05-15 Thread Frantisek Vlcek
DM The output profile will be kept internally on the machine and I don't DM know if you'll be likely to get your hands on it. I certainly couldn't DM - I don't even know if Agfa used an ICC workflow in their machine, or I too would think they have CMS of their own design. But at least Fuji

Re: Inkjet recommendations (WAS: Re: Pentax High End DSLR)

2004-05-15 Thread Frantisek Vlcek
WR I can't get any of this info from Noritsu. All they were able to tell WR me is that the machine presumes everything is sRGB. WR They have their own profiling system for monitor balance, it seems to WR very closely match the monitor balance I get from my Pantone Spyder WR thingie. It can much

Re: Inkjet recommendations (WAS: Re: Pentax High End DSLR)

2004-05-15 Thread David Mann
On May 15, 2004, at 10:37 PM, Frantisek Vlcek wrote: I can ask my lab which has very competent staff if their D-LAB has an softproofing (printer) profile for use on my computer. I can send you one too, if they have. I would appreciate that. If there are separate profiles for matte and glossy

Re: Inkjet recommendations (WAS: Re: Pentax High End DSLR)

2004-05-14 Thread Frantisek Vlcek
My lab uses Agfa D-lab 2, I think. It does have a worse scanning unit than Frontier, but that doesn't matter as I bring digital files in, not negatives. And time to time I use another lab with Frontier 350. Maybe the frontier is better, but the lab with Agfa is just more professional. They have

Re: Inkjet recommendations

2004-05-14 Thread Derby Chang
Butch wrote: there should be a check box in the advanced options that allows borderless if it's like other Epsons. If you're using CS you may have to use print to preview to get to that dialog box. Hmmm...very odd. Last night I tried two borderless prints and they either got chopped off or

Re: Inkjet recommendations (WAS: Re: Pentax High End DSLR)

2004-05-14 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Frantisek Vlcek Subject: Re: Inkjet recommendations (WAS: Re: Pentax High End DSLR) Anybody knows which device has the widest gamut (perhaps on which paper as well) ? They are all 8 bit per colour channel printers. It doesn't matter which paper is being

Re: Inkjet recommendations (WAS: Re: Pentax High End DSLR)

2004-05-14 Thread Frantisek Vlcek
Or we could compare the generic Frontier ICC profiles Fuji provides with profiles from WR Noritsu and others, if any are for download. WR sRGB is the standard profile used by the industry. sRGB is only a working profile, as I understand it. You are right that most digilabs assume the

Re: Inkjet recommendations (WAS: Re: Pentax High End DSLR)

2004-05-13 Thread brooksdj
Which brings up a good question: What are folks printing their *istD images with? I use a Canon S800 with a BJC8200 as a backup. Paper used is Ilfords Classic Gloos/Pearl and Epson Glossy. I recently bought an Olympus P-400 dye-sub.The few test prints i

Re: Inkjet recommendations (WAS: Re: Pentax High End DSLR)

2004-05-13 Thread wendy beard
Which brings up a good question: What are folks printing their *istD images with? I use an Epson 2000P. I also have an Olympus P-400 (like Dave). Am seriously considering either the HP 7960 or Epson R800 as well to be a general purpose printer for other documents (I have an HP Deskjet 970C

Re: Inkjet recommendations

2004-05-13 Thread Derby Chang
Got my Epson R210 last night. Its a pleasure to use. Not at all expensive, beautiful photo prints, and prints labels direct to CD as well. Borderless printing doesn't seem to work at all with Photoshop, so I have to convert the file to bmp or jpg and use the Epson Photoquicker software (am I

Re: Inkjet recommendations (WAS: Re: Pentax High End DSLR)

2004-05-13 Thread Anand DHUPKAR
--so, you are using canon printer with epson paper ? there is no compatibility problem !! that's an interesting point... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Inkjet recommendations (WAS: Re: Pentax High End DSLR) Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 07:44:46 US

RE: Inkjet recommendations (WAS: Re: Pentax High End DSLR)

2004-05-13 Thread Rob Brigham
now... -Original Message- From: Anand DHUPKAR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 May 2004 22:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Inkjet recommendations (WAS: Re: Pentax High End DSLR) --so, you are using canon printer with epson paper

Re: Inkjet recommendations

2004-05-13 Thread Herb Chong
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 5:03 PM Subject: Re: Inkjet recommendations Got my Epson R210 last night. Its a pleasure to use. Not at all expensive, beautiful photo prints, and prints labels direct to CD as well. Borderless printing doesn't seem to work at all with Photoshop, so I

Re: Inkjet recommendations (WAS: Re: Pentax High End DSLR)

2004-05-13 Thread Bill Owens
Frontier 375 or Epson 725. Bill - Original Message - From: William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 8:43 PM Subject: Re: Inkjet recommendations (WAS: Re: Pentax High End DSLR) - Original Message - From: Timothy Sherburne Subject

Re: Inkjet recommendations (WAS: Re: Pentax High End DSLR)

2004-05-12 Thread Bruce Dayton
Agfa D-Lab (my local lab) and sometimes my home HP 7350. Once in a while the Sam's Club Fuji Frontier. Bruce Wednesday, May 12, 2004, 2:10:41 PM, you wrote: TS Which brings up a good question: What are folks printing their *istD images TS with? TS Right now I'm using an aging HP 970 Cxi,

RE: Inkjet recommendations (WAS: Re: Pentax High End DSLR)

2004-05-12 Thread Rob Brigham
:11 To: Pentax Discussion List Subject: Inkjet recommendations (WAS: Re: Pentax High End DSLR) Which brings up a good question: What are folks printing their *istD images with? Right now I'm using an aging HP 970 Cxi, which is okay for quick snapshots, but not so good for finer work

Re: Inkjet recommendations (WAS: Re: Pentax High End DSLR)

2004-05-12 Thread Herb Chong
the low end Epsons have always been trouble. i have never had clogged jets in my 12xx series of printers. Herb... - Original Message - From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 6:28 PM Subject: Re: Inkjet recommendations (WAS: Re

Re: Inkjet recommendations (WAS: Re: Pentax High End DSLR)

2004-05-12 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Timothy Sherburne Subject: Inkjet recommendations (WAS: Re: Pentax High End DSLR) Which brings up a good question: What are folks printing their *istD images with? Noritsu 3101 William Robb