I'm having difficulty with printing large canvas prints, which has been due mainly to the custom profile, I hope.
When I soft proof my images, it is obvious that there is A LOT of detail being lost, due to colors blocking up mainly. I've tried printing using a different profile (Inkjetart micro ceramic luster), and the detail is much better, but I'm losing some color saturation, especially in the greens.
I print on a Canon ipf8100 with Breathing Color canvas. Booksmart Studio generated the profile. I printed the 1728 patch targets through the Canon export module, following the instructions "to a T". Can anyone recommend a better profiling service? Or is it just the nature of canvas and its texture causing difficulties for the spectrophotometer?
Posted by Mike Sellers on April 18, 2008 at 1:32 PM
what rendering intent are you using? Try both perceptual and realtive colorimetric. What canvas profiles did they include with the printer?
Posted by Mike Sellers on April 18, 2008 at 1:34 PM
also,you have to use the exact same settings when you print with the profile that were used to generate the patches.
Thanks for your suggestions/comments Mike - I've been using relative colorimetric rendering. I have not yet checked the media guide CD that came with the printer, but scrolled through the Canon profiles available and saw none that had canvas in the name. I'll see what Canon recommends for canvas, but that still won't solve my problem completely since I intend to continue using the Breathing Color and need a profile for that canvas.
Same settings were used to print as used for the target. I don't think that would matter anyway, since the loss in detail is obvious when viewing at print size when I change profiles while soft proofing.
I checked with Patrick Herold at Chromix, and believe that the issue may lie with the fact that canvas has texture, and there may have been some reflections read by the spectrophotometer that was used to build the current profile. Chromix uses a GretagMcBeth SpectroScan table with a polarizing filter to filter out stray reflections of light for canvas profiles. I think that may solve the problem.
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3 repliesWhen I soft proof my images, it is obvious that there is A LOT of detail being lost, due to colors blocking up mainly. I've tried printing using a different profile (Inkjetart micro ceramic luster), and the detail is much better, but I'm losing some color saturation, especially in the greens.
I print on a Canon ipf8100 with Breathing Color canvas. Booksmart Studio generated the profile. I printed the 1728 patch targets through the Canon export module, following the instructions "to a T". Can anyone recommend a better profiling service? Or is it just the nature of canvas and its texture causing difficulties for the spectrophotometer?
Same settings were used to print as used for the target. I don't think that would matter anyway, since the loss in detail is obvious when viewing at print size when I change profiles while soft proofing.
I checked with Patrick Herold at Chromix, and believe that the issue may lie with the fact that canvas has texture, and there may have been some reflections read by the spectrophotometer that was used to build the current profile. Chromix uses a GretagMcBeth SpectroScan table with a polarizing filter to filter out stray reflections of light for canvas profiles. I think that may solve the problem.
Thanks again, Mike.