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Lab uses no ICC before prints

Anonymous Mon 11 Sep 2017 20:23:18 No.3149293 View View Reply Original Report

>send pics for printing
>pretty happy but can do better
>many of them seem slightly washed out, low contrast compared to my monitor
>some ugly thick noise too here and there
>monitor calibrated
>research the lab
>find out the exact line of printers they have
>find out the paper too
>find the ICC profile through official Fuji websites
>contact the support to double check
>"just use sRGB, the technical people won't use ICC profiles."
>come again?
>"we strip the customer photos off any colour profile attached to the image and do our own internal processing in sRGB space. I would recommend using sRGB as a point of reference. For my own pics I got the closest results when my photos originally came in simple sRGB colour space"
>so I should adjust my new prints by eye then compared to the old ones?
>yes
>ok...

Since I know the printer and paper, why not use the ICC?
Also how do you strip profiles from photos? Why would the lab do that before they print?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Sep 2017 20:47:01 No.3149307 Report

Quoted By: >>3149313

Jesus Christ fuck that lab.

Tell them they arent professional if they do that and bin them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Sep 2017 20:58:32 No.3149313 Report

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>>3149307
>>3149307
It sounded really weird that their tech lab people won't let me use the ICC which is for the exact printers and papers we used. I understand that most plebs (summer holidays, pet photos) are fine with it though.
I will try something else. I found one that does ICC profiles and actually provides them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Sep 2017 21:00:05 No.3149314 Report

Quoted By: >>3149318 >>3149873

>>3149293
>richard photo lab in los angeles
>looks like some high-end professional lab that offers prints in high-end specialized paper for its fine art services
>"YOUR PHOTO MUST HAVE EMBEDDED sRGB PROFILE"

is sRGB normal for printing professional and fine art? i was under the impression that pro printers could handle a lot more colors than sRGB. or maybe I know even less than I thought about color profiles

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 11 Sep 2017 21:08:41 No.3149318 Report

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>>3149314
Sweetie, if you can't make a great print using the srgb colour space, you suck a bag of dicks.
If you can't wrap your head around having to "compromise your gamut" though, a canon Pro-1 is like $600 these days, print your own damned pictures.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Sep 2017 18:50:22 No.3149873 Report

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They are partially right. Those Fuji profiles are not meant for you but for the printer unless he has his devices profiled (which he should because paper and pigments also affects output). At best you can only use them for soft proofing, however for work standardized working color spaces like sRGB or Adobe RGB should be used and delivered in. What they fail to do is to account for anything other than sRGB and also mess with rendering intents without asking the customer (you).

>>3149314
>i was under the impression that pro printers could handle a lot more colors than sRGB. or maybe I know even less than I thought about color profiles
That really depends on the printing technology and materials used. Usually prints have wider gamut in the greens, less so in the blues when compared to sRGB.

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