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I know that's what many people in this industry think it means... But as pointed out above, that's actually exactly backwards.

Probably just being picky here, but... Metamerism is when it works. Metameric failure is when it doesn't.

arossetti Sorry to take so long answering, I just now happened to notice this. But in answer, I can't really say for sure, because I've never seen a 3100. From what I understand, HP sends factory people out to profile them with most of their installs, so I've never gotten a call to profile...

A little late here, but I'd add that for the most part, I don't much like the term 'GCR' when thinking in terms of profiling for large format inkjet. I much prefer to think of black generation strategy overall. And it's definitely true that overall black generation strategy is key in affecting...

Of the machines you've listed, for what you're trying to do, first and foremost forget the HP 360. It is not a fine-art quality machine. It also has some serious color consistency issues that HP has so far refused to even acknowledge, so who knows when they'll address fixing them. After that...

...and the answer, put simply, is an absolute and unqualified... It depends. It depends on the image; it depends on the media; it depends on the printer; and it depends on the printer profile. And it does help to think of this as gamut and not as dynamic range. The gamut of any color space is...

Mitch, That would depend entirely on what it is you want to do, and how much you've got to spend; but from pretty extensive experience with just about every printer/RIP combination out there, I'd lean sort of in the Seiko or Epson direction, depending on price and features, and just overall...

Mitch, I'll second what DYP said. Perceptual rendering intent is not intended for proofing use, ever. Two problems: First is that as defined by the ICC, perceptual rendering intent is supposed to move all colors, in or out of gamut, in order to make images more perceptually pleasing. Great to...

Mitch, Honestly, the RIP doesn't make just a whole lot of difference with the 300 series latex printers mainly because so many of the inking controls that are possible in a RIP on other printers have been taken away and the machine has been made into a very restrictive contone-only printer...

Pauly, Just because it appears to me you're still looking for something that isn't there... Onyx does not do this. You can do an emulation in Onyx, but it's a completely different path, done in a completely different way. And the thing is: You never really know what you'll find when you go...

Thank you, Stephen. Asures, You're spending a lot of time here trying to pound a square peg into a round hole. Large format inkjet printing isn't lithography, and the same rules and processes just don't apply. For instance: "Trap" is a term used in lithography, but it doesn't have any real...

Pauly, Interesting stuff... But it doesn't work that way. Of course one of the problems in situations like this is that if I don't see something myself I don't know just exactly what happened... But I can tell you that while I have some pretty well-documented issues with the Onyx ICC...

Well... http://correctcolor.org/colorbycorrectcolorvsg7.html The problem is that there isn't a dye-sub standard color space because there aren't any dye sub standards for white point or color values or density and there aren't very likely to be any anytime soon. So the thing to do is profile...

Are you inkjet? And how many different fabrics do you print? Mike Adams Correct Color

First thing to do is to tell the client that this is going to cost them some extra money. Keep in mind that in actuality, all any Pantone color is is an ink formula. If you make that ink formula correctly, and print it properly, then whatever color you get on whatever media you use is that...

One of the oldest truisms in printing: It's not the press, it's the pressman. Mike Adams Correct Color

arossetti, Because linearization measures dot gain, and dot gain is going to be at least somewhat different on every media. ICC profiles don't compensate for anything. They characterize a certain device reproducing color in a certain state. Their function is to convert L*a*b* values -- pixel...

Pauly, Glad to hear you've gotten somewhere. However, here's what I'd point out: You're in Australia, so that may be the case in your case, although even at that I'd argue. Look at all of the time you've invested in this, and keep in mind that as a business owner, your time is your single...

Myself, I'm still wondering what you can possibly become "expert" at in three days.

No, that does not hold water. What an ICC profile is is a characterization of a device reproducing color in a certain state, and linearization is a key component of that state. Fact is that if you're serious about color management in large format printing, the only option is to profile every...