ο/η Randy Little <randyslittle@xxxxxxxxx> :
Well they could look better and if you lab is working in sRGB I would find a new lab. Every printer epson makes now does adobe RGB gamut. even my old 3800 does 16 bit and adobe rgb.
when was working at Macromedia software back when it existed and had Prepress software we and Adobe fought hard to not have what became sRGB be sRGB. I believe I remember reading one of Sabine Sustreks arguments against it (Sabine was one of the lead people at ICC and a professor at RIT) Basically in sRGB you can kiss your subtle tones in your shadows and highlights good bye. Since you are working in sRGB from start to finish you don't even know what you are missing. If I showed you the gamut difference between say my Leaf backs and anything currently available in a DSLR you would be amazed. the stupid thing is that is not the hardware that is the limiter. Its the programmers of the cameras. the chips can do a much larger color gamut.
I think I got a taste off, when i was a photography newbee...
My colorspace was adobeRGB and I had just used the "save for web" feature. Then I opened up the web version in windows explorer and was struck with the difference.
problem is most people will not bother with color setting, but that is their own cross to bear.
mee and another guy will be there to help with bringing the final files to specs.
by Herschel Mair
I presume that aRGB is Adobe RGB 1998 which is a low contrast, wide gamut color space - suitable for processing but it's difficult to predict results if you print from there. The printer simply wont have the scope to deal with it and will have to make some changes. the results may surprise you and not always in a good way!
I think this is the reason two lab owners mentioned that they would do soem tinkering of their own.
One more issue:
- we do have the printers' color profiles available. but we were told that is not of good use to use them, especially on a non calibrated screen
Also, what about my paper questions (weight significance, exposure to outside place)?
