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Hi,

Further to my recent questions I went ahead and used the Spyder 3 Print to build a printer profile for Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 188g for my Epson 3800. I ended up using the Media Setting of Epson Ultrasmooth as it looked like it gave the best gradients in the test images.

Now I notice that if I load a Colour Test image in photoshop and compare the out of gamut areas that are shown when soft proofing with the Hahnemuhle provided profile (from their website) vs the profile I created there are a lot more out of gamut areas in the darker colour areas. I am attaching a screenshot of what I see. The Hahnemuhle profile is applied to the left image and the Spyder3 built profile to the right image. Is this going to cause me some issues later? Will the printer have to make guesses about how to fit the non-gamut regions? I must admit the areas which are not out of gamut do look slightly better on the screen in the Spyder profile version...

See attached image: Mfr_vs_Spyder3.jpg

Rgds
Rick