Colour Profiles in UK

[graeme]

A quick plug for these guys:

http://www.pureprofiles.com

Just had some profiles done by them and am very pleased. Nice prints & pretty accurate soft proof previews from my admittedly not top - end set up. ( NEC Multisync PA231W profiled using BasiCColor with a DTP 94 puck, printed on Canon iX6550 using a Lyson CISS, 'viewing station' is an Ott Lite ).

Graeme

[Rhossydd]

Other profiling services are available in the UK too ;-)

Interesting to see they still use such an old target set from PMP.

We, www.colourprofiles.com , developed a 1005 patch target that seems to achieve better grey balance than the default GMB chart, it also helps using a DTP70 here too. It all fits on a single page as well.

[graeme]

Other profiling services are available in the UK too ;-)

Interesting to see they still use such an old target set from PMP.

We, www.colourprofiles.com , developed a 1005 patch target that seems to achieve better grey balance than the default GMB chart, it also helps using a DTP70 here too. It all fits on a single page as well.

Well maybe I'll try you next time.

[Rhossydd]

Well maybe I'll try you next time.

:-)

[digitaldog]

We, www.colourprofiles.com , developed a 1005 patch target that seems to achieve better grey balance than the default GMB chart, it also helps using a DTP70 here too. It all fits on a single page as well.

If that's the goal, the 2500 patch post optimization process available using i1Profiler can aid some output devices quite well. But it's a secondary process that requires more pages to print then send in but I've seen quite noticeable visual improvements to many of the ink jet printers I've profiled.
MT's profile generation is good, i1P's a bit better, one of the actual improvements over the older software (so kudo's to X-rite just in case some think I'm too hard on them).
Next week I hope to test custom target generation from the new version of ColorAnt vs. i1P using the same number of patches.

[Rhossydd]

If that's the goal, the 2500 patch post optimization process available using i1Profiler can aid some output devices quite well.

Sure, I'm not claiming perfection for our system. I just think we offer a good balance of performance for price.
Using a single sheet with a good autospectro means we can build good profiles quickly at a low cost. We could offer a more sophisticated profiling service, but it would increase the price dramatically and add a further stage of complication to the whole process that some customers might have difficulty with.

I'm sure with your experience you'll appreciate that keeping things simple makes it easy for both customer and supplier.
 

[digitaldog]

Sure, I'm not claiming perfection for our system.

No one can.

In terms of the secondary i1P process, sometimes the results are nill. For some devices and for some who wish to use ICC profiles for B&W instead of say Epson's Advanced B&W, it can be worthwhile to do. So you test the first iteration and if you're happy, move on. As long as the profile is built to contain some proprietary data or the measurement data is kept around, one can continue with the secondary process and a new profile can be generated. Kind of like a 'raw' profile (it can get better).