Check with them to see what embedded profile they want. Almost all lab
processing machines use sRGB nowadays.
White House may be having to convert your files before printing
On 7/12/2016 6:16 AM, Zos Xavius wrote:
White House Custom Color. They are my preferred lab. I have never had
a problem with them.
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 8:06 PM, Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> wrote:
Paul, I am glad that you didn't experience problems with them.
In part, it is my lack of proper checking. I was very short on time, and I
just assumed that they can work with standard color profiles. How naive I
was!
For comparison, - as far as I remember, Mpix uses color profiles and even
provide their printer profile for soft-proofing.
Cheers,
Igor
Paul Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:58:45 -0700 wrote:
Sorry to hear you had a problem, Igor. I've only had them do several 20x30s,
but they've never been a problem. But...anything I send out to a lab gets
sRGB embedded. The only time I use any other profile is if I'm doing my own
printing.
-p
On Mon, 11 Jul 2016, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
I've be seriously disappointed by Adoramapix today.
And there might be some useful information (a warning) for anybody who
considers using them.
Well, let me tell the entire story.
In the era of film, I've used to print at Adorama store in person, while
living in NYC, and I had my favorite master that I was asking to print my
photos, even if that would take an extra day because it wasn't his day.
The way Michael was doing colors was what I wanted.
Then after moving away from NYC, I've used Adoramapix a few times to order
photos via mail to some relatives on the East cost, and some photos for
myself.
Fast-forward some 8-10 years. A few months ago, Adoramapix started sending
their spam (aka UCE) to the address used for my account with them.
That's after more than 8 years of no relations. (This IS a violation of
the existing, albeit miserably failed anti-spam laws. But this message is
not about that.)
Just before July 1, I've got an e-mail from them with a special code for
100 free 4x6 photos.
I actually needed to print something. So, I ordered them. Of course, the
shipping is not free, and the faster you want them shipped things quicly
pick up quite some price (that's apart from the "rush processing" if you
want to have them printed within less then a week).
I've sent photos with the embedded Adober RGB (And a few with PhotoRGB)
color profiles. At the last moment, I've written in the comments that
is am embedded color profile in each photo (PhotoRGB or AdobeRGB).
A week later (when I am thinking that my order is hopefully already put in
the mail), I am getting an e-mail message (in between 4 identical
Adorama+AdoramaPix spam messages "Adorama + Nigel Barker | Will You Be Our
Top Photographer?"):
" I hope you understand that our lab only prints correctly images that are
converted to SRGB only. We do not print any other color profiles."
Virginia C. CS Agent
Doh! The can only work with SRGB?!
They, who do not think twice before throwing in the word "professional"
near "photography" and "printing"?!
And it took them a week to read that and to respond, and to suggest no
options, nothing...
Caveat Emptor!
I just looked: Adoramapix got awful rating on ResellerRatings:
http://www.resellerratings.com/store/Adorama_Pix
I know, I suggested AdoramaPix as a printing shop few times to PDMLers.
My sincere apologies!
Igor
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