Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter, Your Epson printers can substantially print ProPhoto RGB color space so I would edit there for strong colors like you have. On 8/20/07, Peter Klein <pklein@2alpha.net> wrote: > > I wrote: > >I just could not believe these petunias. Even in the shade, they seemed > >to be florescent. > < > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/album170/L1001127UVPetunias.jpg.html > > > > My printer couldn't believe the colors, either. I just tried to print the > above picture, and the colors came out very different from the > screen. Instead of the florescent magenta-purple, I get very red > flowers. Red like a Poinsettia at Christmas. The only place a few petals > look purple is on the very left, at the top right, where the flowers are a > little faded or shaded. But not jaded. > > Have I encountered the dreaded out of gamut conundrum? Did the ghost of > Dr. > Fourrier, immortalized in my print driver, take a look at the RGB numbers > and refuse to transform? "No way," he'd say. I'd overflow my > register. I'd divide by zero and disappear into a Black Hole. And my cat > would die!" > > I had the same results on two different printers, an R200 and an > R1800. The R1800 did a little better, but had basically the same > problem. I printed from a 16-bit TIFF. I generally use sRGB color space > for workflow simplicity. Might I have a better chance of getting the > colors right if I used Adobe RGB? Or if I tweaked the rendering > intent? Or > are the printers just not capable of reproducing this color? Is this a > case of The Effect of Out of Gamut Rays On Man-In-The-Moon Purple > Petunias? > > Seriously, this is not a huge deal, but I'm curious what to do about > it. This is only the second time I've encountered a color that totally > weirded out my printer. > > --Peter > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory@gmail.com