giovanni_allievi1

<p>@Andre Rodney:</p> <blockquote> <p>Exactly, no justification. They should either fully support a real, ICC, Color Management workflow (they don’t) or just tell you that sRGB is the only color space they will accept.</p> </blockquote> <p>My thinking is they assume 90% of people has a regular, small gamut display and they don't want to disappoint customers and play it safe telling them staying in sRGB so they print match their screen.<br> What about the other 10% who actually owns a large gamut display and want to exploit the full gamut of the paper they choose and are able to actually see those colors ? Even if it is buying me that extra few colors (at no extra cost indeed), why shrinking the whole thing down to sRGB ?<br> I'm totally up with richseiling (West coast imaging printing) when he says in another post:</p> <blockquote> <p>What I am relating is first hand experience working extensively (hundreds of prints pushed to the limit for my fine art clients) in AdobeRGB, and I can tell you that visually that "tiny bit of yellow and magenta" equals a whole lot of colors that are very meaningful to the eye that AdobeRGB just can't reproduce. But in reality it is more than just those colors...</p> </blockquote>

<p>Andrew,<br> yes, the original was edited in ProPhoto. I assumed that the profiles they provide were suitable to do a decent soft proof....</p>

<p>Thanks Andrew.<br> About the SpectraView: I can only see one download link, not differentiated between US/non US<br> (http://www.necdisplay.com/support-and-services/spectra-view-II/Downloads).<br> Out of curiosity: why do you say the US version is better ?<br> Anyway, any big differences between the two (NEC/EIZO) that you know of ?<br> Thanks</p>

<p>Hi,<br /><br />I'd like to upgrade to a wide gamut monitor.<br />I've narrowed the choice down to the NEC PA242W-BK and the EIZO CS240.<br />What are the main differencies between the two ?<br />I like the NEC Picture by Picture feature that allows to see the same image on screen rendered side by side<br />each with its selectable color space (i.e: sRGB vs native gamut). Seems cool to predict immediately how the web version would render.<br />Besides this feature, which I don't seem to find in the EIZO, they seem similar to me (ok, the NEC costs about 200€ more and I'd get the SpectraView SW for the NEC too)<br /><br />Your thoughts ?<br /><br />Thanks,<br />Giovanni<br /><br /></p>

<p>Hi,<br />recently I decided to do some Lambda prints on Fuji Crystal DP II through WhiteWall.<br />They ask to submit files in sRGB and I'm a little puzzled:<br />since the gamut of this machine+paper is bigger than sRGB, am I loosing part of the colours ?<br />I wrote them an email asking why wouldn't it be better if I send them a file converted to the paper profile<br />(embedding the profile too) and got this reply:<br /><br />"We can accept any RGB or CMYK color space, but if no ICC profile is embedded we will asume it is sRGB.<br />We do not advice you to use our ICC profiles as the colour space, the conversion to the destination output should be done by us to maximize image quality. The ICC profiles we provide are suitable for softproofing, but your file should not be converted to it's colour space. if you prefer a large Gamut working space Adobe RGB is a better option, but you must make sure the ICC profile is embedded so it is treated as Adobe RGB, not sRGB."<br /><br />Why converting to a narrower gamut in the first place ? (AdobeRGB is slightly narrower in places compared to the paper profile of the Fuji Crystal DP II that they provide for soft proof).<br /><br />Wouldn't it be better sending a file in its working space (ProPhoto in my case) and let them do the conversion ?<br /><br />Your thoughts ?<br />Thanks,<br />Giovanni.<br /><br /></p>