Tony wrote:
>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.
I really should not weigh in here, but I've had many similar costly results
from similarly costly references. This, I think, is what has made me into a
"Curmudgeon" (although the lovely Mrs. ktrout says I'm "born to it"). :-)
At the end of the day, *what works* is what works. That's a whole lot easier
to type than it is to put in practice. What works for me is probably *not*
what works for Ian Lyons, and vice versa. Feel free to substitute any name
for either of the the above (although "Vice Versa" isn't really a proper
name).
Still and all, the suggestions I see on this List are taken seriously, and
much appreciated.
Best regards--LRA
>From: TonySleep@halftone.co.uk (Tony Sleep)
>Reply-To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
>To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
>Subject: Re: filmscanners: Custom ICC printer profiles
>Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:02 +0100 (BST)
>
>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
> - Online portfolio & exhibit; + film scanner info
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