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From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#3]
12 Mar 2006
To: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#2] 12 Mar 2006
I'll throw in my own .02.
I did the original profiles for The Color Factory and Corel Draw. (I have spoken to Bill Leak and he has gone far beyond me since that time.)
There are a few problems with today's state of color inkjet printing, much improved from years ago.
You cannot get the full gamut of printing colors just because you do not have the variance in dot size of the ink squirt that is necessary to blend four colors to get an exact result.
Another problem is that there is no magenta sub ink that truly matches oem ink jet magenta, major color shift problem to be overcome.
Again each printer model gives different color results, and each printer in that specific model is faintly different
I did find that there was very little variance in the way hard goods reproduced the color in comparison. Soft goods vary slightly from hard goods.
All in all that produces an art for very accurate color rendition.
In addition each profile contains multiple methods of adjustment. Some recreate the colors to the closest exacting color for spot colors. Other parts fade a color and cause a shift in order to make a photograph look more natural.
I am glad that Bill is out there so I was able to bow out of that end of the business.