Greetings all Neil - you were... right.!
I have been using the Pantone Spyder and ColorMouse to try and get myself out of "profile hell" - seems that however hard I try I cannot get the exact printer profile my 1290 needs. The equipment is straightforward, but the 729 patch which I used is fiddly, and has given me a hard time. I wasn't sure whether one is allowed to enlarge the test patch size to A3(for ease of measuring) so I did 729 on an A4.. not nice, when the counter on screen only goes up to 100.. after that you can't allow yourself to be distracted by anything or else..! I have been forced to bin the Pantone screen calibrations and go back to the Gretag one (which gives me the odd translucent square shape on cursor) and out of the 16 or so printer profiles created I have finally produced a profile which I can say IS better, but none have a large enough gamut. Banding, posterization - still there a fraction. I thought I had it licked but was I wrong! I judged the profiles I made with the 'profile-pro' plug-in through the custom proof set-up in PS7, and alternating between profiles in this mode.. seemed a good way to see if they matched the screen (then printing to check properly), but I suspect I am not doing it the right way(?) The instructions are there but don't specify if you can/not do that. Teamwork, who rented the kit to me for the weekend, charged �55 plus vat., let me have the Color-mouse an extra day for free, due to my foot-stomping in the shop. The sales guy swears blind that it works "just fine for everybody else" -AHEM.. I won't be purchasing a Spyder OR Colormouse, cheers mate. So, I will try printing the test downloads from Neil Barstow's Pixl site and going from there - too bad I now have to print and make excuses, I hope I don't lose face with my clients if they pick my prints to death.. Ouch - Learnt MY lesson. Neil/Thomas! I'm on my way. Eddy =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
