On Dec 7, 2005, at 7:28 AM, Glen wrote:
Are you making your edits using the same color space as the printer? Does the printer even make use of embedded color profiles such as sRGB or Adobe? The lab which printed my photo didn't even know what a color space was, and neither did their printer apparently. ;)
Even with colour spaces supplied and honoured you will still run into problems with highly saturated colours unless the printers take the time to soft-proof and adjust your file for you.
I have some plots somewhere of how the Epson 2100 profiles compare to both sRGB and Adobe RGB. They aren't pretty, mainly because the printers are really CMYK devices. The printer can't reproduce strong pure red, green or blue colours, and the working space can't represent strong cyan, magenta or yellow colours (which is where the printer excels). So you end up with the worst of both worlds.
You could use a huge working colour space but that opens up all sorts of tradeoffs and probably won't gain you a lot in the real world, especially if the printer is being the limiting factor.
- Dave
