Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If you are planning on doing a lot of printing, it would be worth looking into ImagePrint. It's expensive, but it's worth it and saves enough in ink and paper to pay for itself: http://www.colorbytesoftware.com/ <http://www.colorbytesoftware.com/>Tina On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> wrote: > Further to this fiasco: > > I am using Win7, PS CS1 (!) and trial mode CS5. The reason I haven't > upgraded PS in ages is because I mainly use Lr2.x and now LR3.x, but I need > PS to do digital negatives. > > As I am using Win7, at least I do not suffer from the Snow Leopard / Epson > issues. > > However, I did print a digital negative calibration chart out on the same > sheet of film and so they are processed the same way: > > - ACPU, Adobe Color Printing Utility (supposedly print without any color > management) > - CS5, with Adobe RGB ->Adobe RGB null transform > - CS1, print with "Same as Source" and "Application Manages Colors" (no > color management) > > This is on a HP Z3100. I scan results with an Epson Expression 1000XL so > it's not as accurate as a densitometer. However, the results are clear: > > - ACPU scales the output. This is consistent for letter size and my pano > size of 8.5x22". May be it is a bad interaction with HP driver. I do not > know, but the behavior is again consistent. > > - CS5 with null transform and CS1 with no color management produce output > that are virtually the same. Any measurable differences is probably due to > the digital negative->contact print->scan workflow. > > - ACPU output is VASTLY different from the other two. > > My conclusion is that ACPU is a piece of junk. In addition to who knows > what > it's printing, it: > - has a lousy UI > - scales your images > - doesn't even have the courtesy to remember the last folder > - open TIFF only > > Someone is asleep at the wheel in Adobe. > > > -- > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> > // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous > replies in your msgs. ] > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com