On Dec 21, 2008, at 12:00 AM, Christine Aguila wrote:
What instructions did the paper vendor supply for use with these
papers?
Well, Brilliant supplied a 6 page direction sheet, which I'll spare
you, Godfrey :-)--and I will go over it again, but often times I
find these profiles are written for Photoshop specifically. I was
told that I could use them in Lightroom, but even when told that, I
quietly didn't believe it. I mean, I'm proceeding on the assumption
that an ICC profile is written for a specific printer, paper type, &
processing software. Am I wrong? Don't hesitate to say so :-).
An ICC profile presents a transform from Lab color space to a
particular printer, paper and inkset color space, given the
appropriate rendering intent and particular printer driver/hardware
setup. The documentation usually uses an application to implement
those specific configuration requirements, and that is usually
Photoshop, but as long as you can make the configuration requirements
in the printer as needed the application used to do it is arbitrary.
There's always the possibility that the profiles are bad too.
Yes, I've heard this too--have you ever purchased custom made ICC
profiles? If so, who did you use?
I've had a couple of color profiles done for me, once upon a time, by
a friend out in Minneapolis. He works for a company which does this
work, but I don't recall the name of the company off hand. Most of the
time, I just used the profiles provided by the paper vendors.
Profiles usually give more accurate and more consistent results,
but that depends on how good they are and how they're used. I had
horrible results with one or another Hahnemühle paper profiles
until I read through the instructions in detail and found they
were designed to be used with the printer driver set up completely
differently than I expected it ought to be.
I am very eager to try Hahnemuhle--I'll be sure to read the
directions :-)
Hahnemühle Photo Rag Smooth 308gsm is my favorite. It usually feeds
well and has a beautiful warm tone, but it tends to cut sharpness just
a little bit compared to Velvet Fine Art. I also tried their new
Bamboo paper but it proves to be a very difficult paper for the R2400
to feed properly (tends to curl easily and is quite thick).
Godfrey
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