ICC Color Profile for Fuji Frontier MiniLab

[tlooknbill]

No way to tell unless you run a test target which I always do. It only costs me 19¢ to print a 4x6 glossy and takes an hour but it pays off if you print a bunch afterward.

There's also an alternative that's not perfect but can work in a pinch to avoid having to edit or search for another suitable profile for a printer that has drifted mainly toward the cool maroon/bluish side which can ruin fleshtones. I use perceptual intent converting to the profile already at hand. It seems to inject more yellow/orange and lightens the overall tone of the image at least it does with my local Noritsu. I've noticed from examining profiles made for other Frontiers and some Noritsu's the effect isn't always the same.

I've provided a screenshot of scans of my Noritsu prints showing the maroonish/blue drift with a Soft Proof of a Noritsu perceptual conversion preview and how it can correct for it. The image at the bottom depicts promo prints of my restoration work with the upper right image showing the blue cast shift, the lower left showing the Soft Proof preview in perceptual and the lower right showing the print result.

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?pi...cbfMZZgOE5u4V0

[cinderella]

Darling expressive baby!!!
On my computer the top right photo and the bottom right photo are much the same.
The bottom left photo looks great.
So I'm confused. Did you like the bottom right?

[tlooknbill]

The bottom right is what I was aiming for and the top right should look bluer and a bit darker. My display still calibrates to sRGB specs according to my EyeOne Display puck calibrator so I know exactly what I'm seeing.

BTW that's my aunt circa '64 and one of my first self taught restoration projects circa '98-99. Getting the color right without understanding calibration and color management took up 85% of the time spent on most of my restoration work back then. I will never doubt the importance of CM technology.

I've supplied a revised version showing the original sRGB image I was trying to match to. I'm having trouble predicting and shooting for the 100K file size limit selecting the right jpeg compression levels and it's been quite confusing. The file size shown in PS's jpeg dialog box, the download size off of pixentral shown at the bottom of IE browser window, the RetouchPro upload size and uncompressed size on my HD are all different.

I've given it another try and setting compression at "6 medium" really adds too many artifacts. I'll just have to settle for pixentral's 30 day view limit. It would be helpful if RetouchPro changed their file size limit to 200K:

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?pi...mFunBxXDZgw0mh