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such images are certainly appealing to some, but using them as print test pictures raises some questions - the intention of it, and are you printing with an appropriate ICC profile ? Is the monitor calibrated ? Did you check those images in Photoshop proof mode with that paper profile which colors are actually out of gamut ? That's a general problem with such images which mainly have saturated colors. Those out of gamut colors will not be printed correctly. You may use the rendering intent 'colorimetric relative' but that will take away some of the color saturation.
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I first thought, "Why?" Then some of the comments, especially in regard color shifts and drying time establishment, well, that's cool.
If a printer and it's ICC profile is as good as can reasonably be expected to translate from JPG/PNG, then whatever the monitor shows is the suspect party if it isn't the same.
Probably also a good real world test instead of those gamut frame boxes as to what a given set of inks, papers, or printers can do.
I guess I'm sucked in now and will be forced to play with this over the next few days. To compete in time with my due to arrive today "new" used 3CCD miniDV camcorder....... Toys, toys.
If a printer and it's ICC profile is as good as can reasonably be expected to translate from JPG/PNG, then whatever the monitor shows is the suspect party if it isn't the same.
Probably also a good real world test instead of those gamut frame boxes as to what a given set of inks, papers, or printers can do.
I guess I'm sucked in now and will be forced to play with this over the next few days. To compete in time with my due to arrive today "new" used 3CCD miniDV camcorder....... Toys, toys.
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Emulator, where can I download a good, full sized image of the PNG one? The one I did was like 260KB and showed jaggies on the monitor.
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@Paul Verizzo, That’s is very peculiar,
what exactly are you doing with it !Because I used that image as it was and it printed ok for me, it turned out bright and colourful just like the monitor image too..
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@Paul Verizzo, That’s is very peculiar,
Because I used that image as it was and it printed ok for me, it turned out bright and colourful just like the monitor image too..
I haven't printed it. I just noticed while on the screen there were jaggies. I guess it doesn't really matter if they are there or not for this purpose.
