madlights wrote:You make some very hard to contest points here. I've honestly never tried having a wide gamut color space printed. I know it does make a difference on my monitor...like I said Prophoto especially...does it in fact make as much difference in the print output? I have the color pantones etc. for my printer for ARGB...going to give it a try. Maybe I can even find one for Prophoto. Thanks for challenging my complacency (laziness)-seriously... thanks I'm going to experiment
i am glad that my little speech motivated you.
you should see me live.
. i do four performances weekly - two in the summer months.
yes. in print, it makes an incredible difference. there are shadow details and highlight seperation that most people don't know are possible. if you really want jaw-dropping prints, you will dl your print profiles and match the paper to that. i never believed that mono prints could look so good. color... omg.. color... the last time i saw color this rich was in the ektaprint2 papers.
now, the sad part - for use on the www, the "standard" is jpg. lousy 8 bit images. for the www, you have to throw away 1/2 to 3/4 of your image. some systems support tiff. the images are sometimes huge, and take a long time to dl.
i've printed most of the epson line of printers (the 2200 through the 9800), testing 8 and 16 bit target images. in the tests, i printed the common formats, RAW, PSD, TIFF, and JPG. I printed on most of the papers and inks, including some very expensive fiber paper. i printed in mixed color, and black ink only printers (the ink bay with only black inks. no color carts). i've looked at them from across a gallery and with a 20x loupe (count the rosettes).
Forty years of photography.
Fifteen years of training young professional photographers.