PixelGenius Adds EFP Profile for R2880 Epson Printers
PixelGenius, LLC has added a free ICC profile for the new Epson Stylus® Photo 2880 Printers designed to work with the Epson Exhibition Fiber Paper. The free profiles are available from the PixelGenius web site on this page. This brings the number of free profiles available to 10 including profiles for the R2400, 3/4/7/9800 series as well as the 4/7/9/11880 series printers.
PixelGenius has partnered with Epson America, Inc. in the development of these custom profiles for Exhibition Fiber Paper for use with Epson Stylus® Pro Printers that use UltraChrome K3 Ink™ and UltraChrome K3 Ink™ with Vivid Magenta. In addition PixelGenius has made available useful color management information and instructions on how to create the finest prints.
The profiles are provided “As Is” with no warrantee nor direct tech support from either Epson nor PixelGenius. The profiles have been created and tested by members of PixelGenius and are being provided to the printing community for free as a public service.
We highly suggest that you visit the Epson Web Site to make sure you’ve downloaded and installed the most current printer driver and firmware for your particular printers.
To use these profiles, you should install them in the correct location for your OS;
Mac OS X: /Library/ColorSync/Profiles (available for all users)
Mac OS X: User/Library/ColorSync/Profiles (available for just this users)
Windows98: C:\Windows\System\Color
Windows XP: C:\Windows\System32\Spool\Drivers\Color
Windows 2000, XP: C:WinNT\ System32\Spool\Drivers\Color
Windows Vista: Right-click on the ICC profile, and choose “Install Profile”
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Written by PhotoShop News.Get Your METACOW Right Here!
METACOW: A Public-Domain, HighResolution, Fully-Digital, Noise-Free, Metameric, Extended-Dynamic-Range, Spectral Test Target for Imaging System Analysis and Simulation
Geek Alert: the following would really only excite a “color geek”…
Sent in from Greg Barnett of RIT is this info about a geeky color test target from the Munsell Color Science Lab at RIT (that’s Rochester Institute of Technology for those who didn’t attend school there). From the web site:
“Standard, easily accessible, test targets have long served the field of color imaging as a foundation for comparison of the performance of various imaging systems and algorithms and the open and meaningful exchange of research results. This website details the creation and application of a new digital color test target useful for research and development of color imaging systems. The target has several advantages over previous types of targets that include spatial resolution, dynamic range, spectral resolution, metameric properties, lack of noise, and continuous tonal variations. All these features can be important for visual assessment, computational analysis, and colorimetric evaluation. This target, known as METACOW, is freely available to all performing research in color imaging.”
The METACOW test target available to all, for use in imaging system design and evaluation. Since it is such a large image it is not really practical to download, it will be provided on DVD for a nominal $25 media & shipping/handling fee. On this fabulous DVD you get: Many Gigs of Fullsize METACOW Glory, Smaller and Easier to Manage MINIMETACOW, Matlab Source Code for Reading and Rendering METACOW, and Much More. Or you can download a smaller version (420×600×77) here: Small METACOW Images.
Contact Garrett Johnson or Mark Fairchild for details on how to order your very own METACOW DVD
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Written by PhotoShop News.Microsoft Releases Final GM Versions of HD Photo Plug-ins
Bill Crow, the Microsoft Program Manager for HD Photo (originaly code maned Photon) says on his blog, that the final versions of the plug-in for Adobe Photoshop CS2 and CS3 are available for download. The download is free.
The plug-ins are available for both Windows as well as Macintosh. For the Windows, XP SP2 or Vista is supported. For Mac, both 10.4 (Tiger) and 10.5 (Leopard) are supported. The plug-in development was done by Microsoft in conjunction with Pegasus Imaging Systems.
HD Photo, which uses an expanded color space named scRGB has the capability to encode high-dynamic range (HDR) images in a wider color gamut color space.
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Written by PhotoShop News.Microsoft hopes scRGB will improve photo colors
Source: CNET
Written by Stephan Shankland
For a computer, dealing with color is just another math problem. And Microsoft wants to change the way your PC counts.
The company has developed a color space–a way to encode colors as numbers a computer can process–called scRGB. If the company succeeds in getting it to catch on, the technology could help add depth and richness to photos taken with digital cameras and viewed on a computer or TV screen.
Today’s cameras and computers usually employ a color space called sRGB, developed in the 1990s by Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, that describes colors as a particular combination of red, green, and blue. But sRGB is limited both in the breadth of colors it can display and in the subtlety of the tonal shades that separate bright from dark, and scRGB is designed to lift those limits.
The sRGB goal was to make Web page colors more consistent from one computer to the next, and it succeeded at that, said Bill Crow, who has led Microsoft’s HD Photo effort to improve digital imagery and who has just been named group manager of the company’s Microsoft Live Labs Seadragon imaging effort. But it’s designed to match the performance only of decade-old CRT monitors, which fall short of the spectrum of hues that human eyes can distinguish and that newer monitors can display, he said.
“The challenge of sRGB is that it’s a subset of the total color space. We are discarding colors when we encode…into sRGB,” Crow said. “ScRGB would allow a richer saturated red value…than the sRGB limit for red.”
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Written by PhotoShop News.PixelGenius Posts ICC Profiles for Epson Exhibition Fiber Paper
PixelGenius has posted their profiles for the new Epson Exhibition Fiber Paper due to be shipping in November, 2007. Working with Epson, PixelGenius members Andrew Rodney and Jeff Schewe (an Epson Sylus Pro member) have been testing the Exhibition Fiber Paper (EFP) over the summer. At the suggestion of Dan (Dano) Steinhardt from Epson, PixelGenius created ICC profiles for all of the current and new shipping Epson UltraChrome K3™ printers–including the Epson Stylus® Photo R2400 Printers.
The profiles are available on the PixelGenius web site for free download. Click here to go to the download page. PixelGenius also posted detailed instructions on the use of the profiles as well as a Profile FAQ page that includes gamut plots of the EFP 11880 printer profile with new Vivid Magenta Inks and Adobe RGB color space.
Profiles are available for:
Epson UltraChrome K3 Ink™ Family of Printers
- Epson Stylus® Photo R2400 Printers
- Epson Stylus® Pro 3800 Printers
- Epson Stylus® Pro 4800 Printers
- Epson Stylus® Pro 7800 Printers
- Epson Stylus® Pro 9800 Printers
Epson UltraChrome K3 Ink™ with Vivid Magenta Family of Printers
- Epson Stylus® Pro 4880 Printers
- Epson Stylus® Pro 7880 Printers
- Epson Stylus® Pro 9880 Printers
- Epson Stylus® Pro 11880 Printers
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Written by PhotoShop News.Adobe Continues Color Workflow Leadership
Concerned with color consistency?
Adobe just posted a new color management module (CMM) on Adobe.com as a free download at http://www.adobe.com/downloads/. The move is the latest in Adobe’s effort to advance open, vendor-neutral color management systems.
The new Adobe CMM is based on the latest ICC (International Color Consortium) profile format, version 4, and it helps achieve more consistent color workflows across platforms since it enables Windows XP users to also use ICC version 4 profiles. Users can now download the CMM component for their applications that support selection of third-party CMMs, and for custom software built to access Adobe CMM directly.
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Written by PhotoShop News.X-Rite i1Display Calibration Products
X-Rite i1Display Products Unveil Affordability With Uncompromised Color Accuracy To Broader Audience at PMA 07
Press Release: LAS VEGAS, NV – Photo Marketing Association (PMA®) International Trade Show – March 1st, 2007 – X-Rite Incorporated, a global leader and internationally known name in color technology, unveils its dynamic X-Rite i1®Display hardware/software monitor calibration solutions for the growing digital imaging market – including a first-ever look at the latest X-Rite i1Display monitor calibration offering for enthusiasts, X-Rite i1®DisplayLT – at the Photo Marketing Association (PMA®) International Convention Trade Show, March 8 – 11, 2007 in Las Vegas.
The All-New X-Rite i1Display family of products is the result of a merger with fellow world-class color technology developer GretagMacbeth. Visitors to the X-Rite Booth B-191 have an opportunity to explore these enhanced color management display systems where ease-of-use and affordability no longer have to compromise color accuracy and versatility.
All functionality is made user friendly through […]
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