Datacolor User to User Support Group.

Ghi:
You could buy the most expensive profiling system, and still not be
much better off. 

I have been making art reproduction prints for almost 10 years. What I
can tell you, is that with the latest ColorVision products, I am
getting the best reproductions possible, with the fewest tweeks. 

Bottom line is, that it takes a good eye, and tweeks are the name of
the game in trying to get a good match for color.I mostly use global
adjustment layers utilizing Curves and Hue/Saturation. Sometimes I am
forced to do localized corrections also though.

The main problem, is that as a painter, you are of course using many
different tubes of paint, with all kinds of gamut. When trying to make
a print using the Epson system, you are basically limited to only 4
primary colors CMYK. (the Lt C & LM don't increase gamut)

John Nollendorfs

--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, Ghi Stecyk <ghiangelo@...>
wrote:
>
> hi Jonathan
> 
> i understand your problem. i'm in the same situation and would love a 
> system that could create output similar to what i paint. what i have 
> found is that this is never the case. color management is actually all 
> about making the best of what you have available. there are plenty of 
> color management software/hardware suites out there. the problem is 
> that none of them, no matter how expensive and complex, and the can get 
> darned expensive, can eliminate the endless tweaking to get the desired 
> result. ColorVision PrintFix Pro is one of the most cost effective 
> color management systems out there, for what it does. also it has to be 
> understood that color management is about the creation of profiles to 
> aid in effective monitor based proofing prior to printing. it's not 
> about making the printed output look exactly like the painted original, 
> instead it is about getting it as close as you can with the inks being 
> used. this is why ink and paper combinations all have to be profiled to 
> analyze the gamut weakness and generate a good soft proof to make the 
> color corrections that are necessary within the scope of the ink/paper 
> potential.
SNIP