Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Petr, Adobe RGB colour space is a little larger than sRGB, as you would know. However your monitor cannot reproduce it fully nor will those printers. The monitor will be showing you more than the printer can, though. The R1800 should do the better of those two, owing to the number of carts available). Try getting a canned profile for the printer and paper combo (assuming calibrated monitor) and use the canned printer profile to soft-proof? You should see a significant difference on screen. Certainly does sound like nature has you outgunned in the super colour area! Cheers Hoppy -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Peter Klein Sent: Monday, 20 August 2007 17:02 To: lug@leica-users.org Subject: [Leica] I can't print my petunias!! 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