ICC Profiles?

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Permalink Reply by irving donaldson on October 30, 2011 at 1:14pm

Mark there is so much more info missing from the question you never asked.  So throwing things into the air:

-How was the original brought into the computer (color shift ont he scan process)

-Once in - what changes made (did program make filter changes)

-On export what settings selected was palette converted

-In VW profile selected - biggie here - 1st failure point in VW printing

-Did you use 'prepress' for you color management

-Did you go into custom and for raster images selet perceptual - especially since you have a lot of tonal changes

-While there did you select preserve primary colors

Those are some of the things I would look into if I was asked a question!

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Permalink Reply by Mark Reynolds on October 30, 2011 at 2:25pm

Digital file from professional photographer - no modifications to the JPG

 

Exported as EPS file with following settings -

Image Header: Checked

- Format: TIFF

- Type: 8 bit Color

- Resolution 72 dpi

Color Management:

- No ICC profile applied

Objects:

- Send bitmaps as: RGB

 

VW

- SSC: Solvent Satin Canvas

I see that I forgot to change from Max Impact to PrePress

- I did not do any custom changes

- everything is set for default settings - no changes

 

Not sure where or when to select preserve primary colors... I just used the defaults...

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Mark Reynolds on October 30, 2011 at 1:15pm

Here is the original file that I printed - Do I need to use a special profile?  I used SSC: Solvent Satin Canvas (ESM). 

 

Attachments:

• PLP_1411.jpg, 600 KB

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Permalink Reply by irving donaldson on October 30, 2011 at 2:42pm

I would try:

do not bring into anything but VW - no need to export and pick up changes unintended

-the prepress should fix your problem

-if that is your material then that is the profile - if you do not know then you can use a different one

-Perceptual is selected in the color management area - second tab - select properties to the right under where you select prepress - preserve primary colors is in the same area below that - you are selecting preceptual just for the raster image (jpg)

Print a small one until you get what you want then go for the larger one - you can keep returning to the top and moving over to save media - just printing large enough to give a good eval.

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Permalink Reply by Butch on October 30, 2011 at 3:18pm

As Irv said - I encounter very few problems with jpgs if I import directly into VW. Make the changes there for color management. It's another story though if you are enhancing the photo in a different program.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Reynolds on October 30, 2011 at 6:37pm

One of the things that Steve taught us was to make another image larger than what we need and blur the image for around the edges of the canvas.  Not sure how this would work...

 

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Permalink Reply by irving donaldson on October 30, 2011 at 10:03pm

Ok if you are doing the blur edge effect for the frame wrap - color adjust your program the original - copy that - enlarge it - send it to the back and center both. Export both - for this I prefer PDF but eps would work and then follow all the stuff I wrote earlier.

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