Re: Fuji Frontier -- Fuji Profile

["H. Averbach" <haverbach@libcom.com>]

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CD Tobie wrote:

>"The Fuji is a wide gamut device, offering bright whites and dark blacks,
so
soft proofing does not offer the advantages it holds for combos with rusty
reds, beige whites, or charcoal gray blacks... it would be about like
softproofing for an Epson with OEM inks and glossy paper; useful, but not to
the degree of limited gamut softproofing."


That's quite interesting.  Should one infer that the Photoshop-6 softproof
function is really only useful for identifying out-of-gamut colors, and not
other aspects of how an image might print?

Howard


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From: <CDTobie@aol.com>
To: <haverbach@libcom.com>; <epson-inkjet@leben.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: Fuji Frontier -- Fuji Profile


>
> In a message dated 9/1/01 7:27:53 PM, haverbach@libcom.com writes:
>
> >Available on Fuji's website is a profile for the Frontier 370 machine
> ("FujiFrontier(BetaII.icm").
> >I just downloaded the file; it is about 1.2MB.
> >
> >
> >
> >Does anyone know if this profile is, in fact, the specific printer
profile
> >used by photolabs using the Fuji Frontier system?
> >
> >
> >
> >If so, has anyone used this profile to softproof images in Photoshop-6
> >prior to sending the images to the photolab? And if so, how was your
output;
> >i.e., did softproofing using this Fuji profile help produce a better
print?
> >
> >
> >
> >Even without actual experience in this regard, does anyone have a thought
> >or suggestion regarding the concept?
>
> The Fuji is a wide gamut device, offering bright whites and dark blacks,
so
> soft proofing does not offer the advantages it holds for combos with rusty
> reds, beige whites, or charcoal gray blacks... it would be about like
> softproofing for an Epson with OEM inks and glossy paper; useful, but not
to
> the degree of limited gamut softproofing.
>
> C. David Tobie
> Design Cooperative
> CDTobie@designcoop.com
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