I decided to revive a two-month old post of mine in this forum, given that here we have a bunch of fine-arat printers to ask for advice. The post (end the ensuing discussion) is here:
http://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=97161.msg794517#msg794517But I will repeat the scenario for those who do not want to read old threads:
I was particularly interested in the color distribution of one particular image of mine that I expected to be difficult to print, as it has a lot of subtle blue variations, typically outside sRGB gamut that I am requested to send to a lab.
Here is the image:
Aqua Blue II by
Slobodan Blagojevic, on Flickr
And here are the plots comparing sRGB and AdobeRGB agains the color distribution of the image. Adobe can hold just a smidgen more colors than sRGB (for this particular image), so the question is:
Which paper profile/printer/process combination would result in a max coverage (apart from ProPhotoRGB, the image's embedded profile, of course)?The best comment I got was from bill t. who said:
The question is not which media is least out of gamut in the blues, but rather which one has the most attractive palette of Gamut-Failure-Blues.
So, fine-art printers, what would you use/advise to print an image like this?