On 7 Oct 2005 at 9:22, William Robb wrote: > Future shop is not an exceptional lab, apparently. > In order to get a mono print off colour paper, both the paper cureve and the > image curve has to be massaged. I have a very good mono profile on my machine > that I arrived at through much work, but if the files haven't been equally > profiled, there will always be a couple of tonal values that show a bit of a > cast. Add to that, we see colour casts much more quickly in mono than in > colour > prints, if the print is off by just a feww cc's, an overall colour cast will > be > readily apparent. I'm not saying it can't be done, but I have strong doubts > that > your labs are doing volume production work, since to get it absolutely right, > every print will be a custom one off; a very time consuming task.
Good labs generally provide a colour profile for their printer/paper combination which ensures accurate reproduction. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
