Bens
4th of January 2002 (Fri), 07:59
Hello,
First, I would like to thanks all of you and Pekka for this forum so interesting.
As many of d30 users, I want to get prints from it, both with inkjet printers or real photo paper service. So I tried http://www.colormailer.com (photo paper AGFA), and you can read it :
"Because or Labs use the ICC sRGB color profile, it is very important that your scanned pictures and other images created with your computer are output in RGB mode and not in CMYK. If you save a CMYK image as a Jpeg and send it for printing, quite important and noticeable alterations of the colors may occur.
In order to allow you to calibrate the colours on your screen, we are offering you a downloadable test image that you can have printed with your first test order."
Then I got the test image on my screen and received my prints : contrasts and gamma are very accurate but colours are too much far away from their test file ! So, is it my screen ?
Some times later, I saw a post from Pekka : "I use http://www.ifi.fi "onlinephoto" service and they use a 254 dpi continuous tone RGB laser printer (equal to 3000dpi in CMYK) on Afga photographic paper (so the prints are actually genuine 'photographs' which last forever). I don't know the brand of the printer.
They provide an ICC profile for their printer on their website. The profile is tested and VERY accurate, so what you see is what you get. Another company specialized in color profiling calibrates the printers every 2 hours (!), that too keeps the colors spot on. "
I decided to download their profile (both labs use AGFA photo paper) and it seems to be very accurate for the prints I received, like Pekka said previously ! (may be they use the same printer).
So I would like to know your advice about it (Pekka may be can answer for it) :
The lab provides a very accurate profile for viewing on screen what you will get on prints. OK very nice. (Colormailer do not provide such profile but these from www.ifi.fi seems to be made for it !)
But prints provide really different colors from what you obtain with d30, especially from green grass and leaves.. So what is the best workflow ?
Can you manipulate colors under the ifi.fi profile, without getting out the printer gamut, in order to obtain better colors ?
thanks !
ps :sorry for my poor english language.
First, I would like to thanks all of you and Pekka for this forum so interesting.
As many of d30 users, I want to get prints from it, both with inkjet printers or real photo paper service. So I tried http://www.colormailer.com (photo paper AGFA), and you can read it :
"Because or Labs use the ICC sRGB color profile, it is very important that your scanned pictures and other images created with your computer are output in RGB mode and not in CMYK. If you save a CMYK image as a Jpeg and send it for printing, quite important and noticeable alterations of the colors may occur.
In order to allow you to calibrate the colours on your screen, we are offering you a downloadable test image that you can have printed with your first test order."
Then I got the test image on my screen and received my prints : contrasts and gamma are very accurate but colours are too much far away from their test file ! So, is it my screen ?
Some times later, I saw a post from Pekka : "I use http://www.ifi.fi "onlinephoto" service and they use a 254 dpi continuous tone RGB laser printer (equal to 3000dpi in CMYK) on Afga photographic paper (so the prints are actually genuine 'photographs' which last forever). I don't know the brand of the printer.
They provide an ICC profile for their printer on their website. The profile is tested and VERY accurate, so what you see is what you get. Another company specialized in color profiling calibrates the printers every 2 hours (!), that too keeps the colors spot on. "
I decided to download their profile (both labs use AGFA photo paper) and it seems to be very accurate for the prints I received, like Pekka said previously ! (may be they use the same printer).
So I would like to know your advice about it (Pekka may be can answer for it) :
The lab provides a very accurate profile for viewing on screen what you will get on prints. OK very nice. (Colormailer do not provide such profile but these from www.ifi.fi seems to be made for it !)
But prints provide really different colors from what you obtain with d30, especially from green grass and leaves.. So what is the best workflow ?
Can you manipulate colors under the ifi.fi profile, without getting out the printer gamut, in order to obtain better colors ?
thanks !
ps :sorry for my poor english language.