Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don, his monitor won't show that colour space though, and that's where the printing decisions are made. Only the very best of the Eizo's will show 96% of Adobe RGB. I'm surprised regarding the printer substantially showing that colour space though???? If you're making editing decisions in ProPhoto RGB you risk significant remapping, surely? My 3800 and 800 both custom profiled and soft-proof beautifully, but certainly won't reproduce the very high end blues. This is less apparent with greens for me. I'd be very interested if you have some references for that Epson colour space capability. Worthy of a thread, I think. Cheers Hoppy -----Original Message----- Subject: Re: [Leica] I can't print my petunias!! 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 _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information