RGB Profile Success!

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YES!!  I finally made a good RGB profile that works better than just
sending the file to the printer unprofiled!  Don't know what is wrong with
the ones I made for Concorde Rag but I made a careful one for Epson Photo
Quality Paper using MIS inks on a Stylus 3000 and it works like a jewel.
Now, if I can figure out what I'm doing wrong in the CMYK profiles I can
leave Photoshop's standard separation engine in the past and have my CMYK
cake and profiles too!

Anyhow, here is a quick thing I learned while I was making a million tests
tonight:  When you use a home-made RGB profile in Photoshop you print with
Printer Color Management not checked and with "No Color Adjustment"
selected in the printer dialog box.  BUT!! When you use the "Epson Standard
Printer" profile that comes with the driver you have to have the Printer
Color Management box checked and the Photorealistic mode checked in the
dialog box.  If you print through this profile without those selections you
get total garbage (at least I did).  Apparently this canned profile was
made to be used with the printer color management controls.  I always
wondered why it looked so strange when viewed in a profile viewer!  By the
way, even with it working right it doesn't do nearly the job my hand made
profile does --I'm so proud!

Back to Color Synergy and working on that CMYK profile and the Concorde Rag
RGB profile.  Think there might be a problem with the way light reflects
off the Concorde surface during a scan -- never could get a good scan of my
quadtone prints so maybe this is related.

Dan Culbertson




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