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Y'know... At some point it might just be advisable to seek professional help. What I'd gently ask is how much time you've spent in total on this profiling project, and if those hours might be spent in better pursuits, as well as how much material you've spent in materials for this project and...

I'm not sure how you define "reasonably priced"... I'm also not entirely sure what you mean by "gamut mapping" your art. Soft proofing is simply soft proofing. There's no "gamut mapping" involved in the process. I'll also admit that frankly, I get a little offended by people who are looking...

Every dealing I've ever had with EFI, I've always gotten a vibe from them something like "Hey, we're EFI, we invented digital imaging. Who the hell are you?" And one time, their tech support gave me wrong answers, made me look like a fool to my client, and then flat out lied to the client about...

"The bloke who told me to leave it on all the time works for the company who sells the ink (I smell a rat). I have since change to non genuine ink and this is helping my costs quite a bit, but still!!!" Justin is right. One thing you might keep in mind is that if you're new to this type of...

It's a different target, with its own set of procedures and its own set of rules, but it is most definitely not a moving target. In inkjet at least, it's as quantifiable, calibratable, predictable and repeatable as any other inkjet process. I've profiled ink jet dye sub machines of all types on...

c26... If what you're asking is if there's some way to generate a PDF in Onyx, and then use that as your incoming printable job file in Colorburst -- with cutter information or not -- the answer is no. If you need help setting up color management in Onyx, please feel free to give me a call...

arosestti, From what I know of them, it's pretty damn good. I haven't seen the dye-sub printer yet, but I expect to fairly soon. I can tell you that they've sent me to handle issues for some of their clients, and I've spent a week at their corporate office working on some issues for them, and...

No, the key phrase the OP used is CMYK. Regardless of what the OP thinks, or what he's used to in the industry, if you send CMYK values, and don't define a color space, then you have no right to quibble at all over what you get back. (Edited to add: It's probably worth pointing out that of...

Vanguard is certainly worth a look. Their Kyocera-head machine won Product of the Year at the latest SGIA (printing with a Correct Color profile, I might add.) Mike Adams Correct Color

client True enough, but it's not like there's an alternative that solves that problem. Lots of people have weighed in here, but the answer to the client is simply that CMYK values are meaningless unless you know the particular CMYK to which you're referring. The way I explain it in my...

That's what I do. Please feel free to drop me a line. Mike Adams Correct Color

Sorry, but... From your water bill to the newspaper to the phone book to annual reports, just about anything that was printed 20 years ago can be delivered and read electronically now. That's why litho is dying, and Donald J. Trump with his "plan" to do something "terrific" is not going to...

Maybe, but if you read their brochure on it, it sure as hell sounds like gloss varnish to me. The way they describe what it is and how it works is exactly the way gloss varnish works on a litho press. But the fact is that even if it's some magic formula and not exactly gloss varnish, it's still...

I haven't seen or profiled a 4000Pro yet, so it's only my opinion and purely taken from reading their literature... But from what I've read and seen, I think the machine is a mis-reading of the market and a mistake. The "BIG" "HUGE" "NEW & IMPROVED" feature of these machines seems to be the...

Well, first off and not to be too picky, but... They're all inkjets. The 825 and the 8400 use aqueous ink, a latex would use latex ink, and a solvent would use solvent ink, but those are all different types of inkjet ink and they are all different types of inkjet printers. Myself, I'm a huge...

Regardless of the machine or the situation, it works like this: First you create a machine state, and then you characterize the machine in that state. The machine state is everything that is variable and controlable in the process of reproducing colors with primaries: White point; ink chroma...

First thing to remember is that unless you're doing something totally wrong -- using your monitor profile as your RGB working space -- then how your monitor is profiled won't affect how your printer prints your images at all. Set up correctly, your monitor is just a window on what you're doing...

Gamma Print is a pretty bare-bones version of Onyx that's sold as OEM with the Epson Sure Colors. Thrive is the Onyx flagship product. The main difference between them is that Gamma uses the Jaws RIP engine, and Thrive uses the Adobe PDF Print Engine. Thrive is also scalable, so that you can...

I'd wager it does. Almost all RIP's do. But if it doesn't, you can convert your files to whatever print space you're going to use (duplicates, of course, just for proofing) in Photoshop at Absolute Colorimetric rendering intent, print the result and accomplish pretty much the same thing. Mike...

Just to note: it's not "...certainly a direction worth looking into." It's how it's done. If you look into any other direction but this one, you're wasting your time. Mike Adams Correct Color