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Many lifetimes ago I bought and sold printing equipment for a living. And when I did, occasionally I'd get a call from someone who wanted to open an in-house shop. And I cost myself many sales I'm sure, but every time I did, I told them pretty much the same thing: Look, I know you think...

That is the most likely explanation. And that's a pretty common problem for files that have passed through some internet system. I have yet to meet a guy who designed one of those systems who cared about color or wanted to learn. As far as your printer profile goes, there are actually several...

The "scratched heads from a dirty environment" honestly sounds pretty lame. I've never heard that one before and it'd take some pretty good-sized chunks getting up in there to do it. If it was my machine, I'd run a nozzle check, and then several cleanings to see if I could get all the nozzles...

I'd agree. Then I'd go a bit further and suggest taking those readings, averaging them together for each device, and then comparing the averages. Mike Adams Correct Color

And what I'd explain to you if you were a client and you said that to me -- very patiently -- is that you can't get a CMYK value from an i1Pro2. All it will give you is a L*a*b* value. To get to a CMYK number that L*a*b* value then has to be converted by someone, somehow, into some CMYK color...

No. It is not true. The one unchanging constant in Pantone colors is the ink formulations themselves. Get any formula book, on any stock, from anywhere in the world, and compare the ink formulations, and they'll always be the same. That's what Pantone colors originally were/are: Ink formulas...

I'm saying I guess you could technically call it that, but no one ever does. Typically gamut-mapping is thought of -- at least by me -- as occurring when an actual conversion is made from one profile to another. Soft proofing is a specific term with a specific meaning that I tend to think of as...

Why, thank you, sir.

If you insist. Its just that no one ever calls it that. It's just referred to as soft proofing, because no change is actually made. Yeah, I'm aware. But I'd put my research up against any of theirs. I think there's kind of a cadre of people out there who are so awe-struck by Graeme Gill --and...

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