RE: filmscanners: Why not sRGB ?

["LAURIE SOLOMON" <LAURIE@advancenet.net>]

shAf,
What the original poster fails to take into account and you failed to point
out is that not all Epson inkjet printer are the same just as not all HP
inkjets are the same.  Some are 4 color general/business application
printers while others are photo application printers (4 or 6 color).  They
do not all have the same color gamut.  The lower end general /business color
printers probably do not need a larger gamut than sRBG; whereas the higher
end photo printers may produce much higher quality outputs with the larger
color gamut.  Obviously one can print on any color inkjet with the narrower
sRBG gamut; and in that sense it is suitable for all inkjets; however that
does not make it optimum for all inkjets. :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of shAf
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 7:27 AM
To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Why not sRGB ?


Steve writes ...

> Many people on this list use Epson printers that supposedly
> work with sRGB.
> If you don't use external printing services or if the
> external service you use have their printing set-up to
> sRGB then why not use sRGB.
> Everytime you convert to or from one colour profile to
> another you have the potential to mess up your print
> If your end target is sRGB (which includes web work) why
> not just work in sRGB?

    If you have absolutely no need for a color space with a larger gamut
than sRGB, then you may as well be using it ... archive to target.  But I
believe you're wrong about sRGB being the suitable color space for Epson
printers, and sRGB certainly does not contain some colors available to print
with Epsons ... even AdobeRGB doesn't.

    You are correct in saying there is a "potential" for messing up your
print with color space conversions, but it isn't necessarily the case ...
you simply need to know what you are doing within a chosen workflow.  (...
granted, it sometimes isn't so simple ...)

shAf  :o)