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I work at a photo lab. Almost all photo printers (minilabs like Noritsu and Fuji) use sRGB at the print stage. Your digital work flow should be something like this. Take your digital picture with the largest color space you have (most digital cameras have Adobe and sRGB). Calibrate your monitor. Edit your image in Adobe color space (even if you took the image with sRBG). You will need the printer profiles from the lab you are going to use (the icc profiles). Install them so you can use them. Now with the image on the screen how you like it, go to the proof area to see the change. . .there should be little, if there is, that means your image will shift by that much when printed with that ICC profile (the printer). Adjust until it doesn't shift too much or the color shift is acceptable. Now save your image, then CONVERT your image to the new profile, save as different name and send that file to the photo lab to be printed. Your original is still Adobe color space(a much larger color space-keep as many colors as long as possible, once they are reduced to sRGB or the printer profile they are gone forever). At the lab, it will be taken in and you can say to have NO DIGITAL ADJUSTMENTS! It will then be converted to the sRGB of the printer (which is the ICC profile). It sounds weird but the ICC profile is an sRGB color space, but the profile have more colors than regular sRGB. If the file is profiled with the printer profile it will print with a larger contrast range and better color rendetion. If you send it in without being profiled or profiled with Adobe or sRGB there will be a noticable change in contrast and color. the following link has a set of profiles for the printer we use: Noritsu 3212. http://arts2001photo.lifepics.com/common/dealercontent.cfm?page=1 Good Luck Chris Browne
April 27, 2005
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