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I'm totally mystified by your hostility. If you'd like to discuss host based color management, or anything else that is not a part of OP's topic, start your own thread. I'm happy to participate (as long as you make some crumb of sense with your writing).

I"ve never seen the ABhay Sharma Thomson book, but the Real World Color Management book is en excellent general knowledge source. Sometimes it is still hard to bridge the general knowledge with how to setup your specific RIP. But as with most things in life, solid fundamentals go a long way.

Are you kidding, ignorant, or trolling? I don't understand what you're asking.

If you'd like to get serious about color, hire a consultant to train you for a couple of days. digitaldog has been at it for a long time and is fully capable. Another suggestion is Marc Aguilera from ColorCritical.com. I've worked with Marc at the Graphic Intelligence Agency, Gretag Macbeth and...

Aw shucks. Thanks. Because most rips won't see embedded profiles in all file types. Usually they'll only recognize embedded profiles in tiffs only. This leaves all your other file types to default to the configured input profiles in the rip. Or worse yet, it may leave the other file types to...

it will in deed cost you more than it's worth (in working condition) to fix it up. Then you're still working with a sketchy old printer that has lots of new parts in it. The advice to use it as a trade in is excellent advice.

You want a media profile for each and every material you print on. It needs to be made for your specific RIP/printer/media combination. Start by looking to the media manufacturer for the profile. If I remember right, oracal is pretty good about having profiles for the mainstream rips. You also...

A good start would hopefully be your dealer. But that's less likely than it should be. Start with a good foundation of striving to use media profiles in your RIP that are actually for your printer/media/rip combination. That should improve the output aspect reasonably well. Second, make sure...

This illustrates my point in reverse. What you're seeing is the artificial inflation of the sRGB color when it is assumed to be aRGB by your RIP. It will definitely be an obvious change. You may like it, and that is great, nothing wrong with liking it or your customers liking it. But it isn't...

I think the core of Mr. Lugnut's point is the difference of converting vs assigning. Let's say your image is truely ARGB and you run it through your RIP setup with sRGB as the input profile. You should get flat, desaturated results with good grays. This output would look very similar to an an...

Assuming you spelled it out ahead of time that after the customer's approval of the proof all responsibility for mistakes are theirs - customer's fault. Gotta make it more than clear ahead of time. Otherwise, 100% your fault.

Look closely at the printed color, is there any black or possibly cyan that is being mixed in by the RIP's color conversion? If so, and you want the literal CMYK mix you mentioned, turn off the color conversion in your RIP. You are not likely to get the color you want, but it will not print with...

You should get grainy prints on high speed. Am I missing something here other than you think things worked better before your computer crash? Do you not remember the profile you used then? Are all your heads firing correctly? Have you done a bidirectional and media feed calibration for this...

If I remember right, it took about 4-7 days for shipping ground. Not bad considering how far it had to go.

I ordered jv3 heads through these guys about a year ago and thought it was as easy as it gets. I was a little gun shy since it was from overseas. But all went as expected and they were charging MUCH less than NuSign. At the time it was about half the cost.

Not odd as far as i see. Magenta in solvents typically gets restricted the least (if at all). C, Y, and K will vary wildly from media to media. You're likely to see longer stretches with C where the delta is less than 1. When it start to go larger than 1, back up a bit and voila! It is also...

BING! we have a winner. This is exactly how to do it. Unlike me when i explain this online, i always forget to mention to setup the Measure Tool spot reading dialog to use the more current DeltaE math (the last in the list) and as you mentioned, change the measurement from LAB to LCH so you get...

Yes and no. ;) You end up adjusting the lin curve that you built as the normal process of media setup. But you're adjusting it after the whole process is completed based on Chromix's direction. I'm sure they're small adjustments assuming you've got good grey balance to start with.

If you do your own profiling, definitely Onyx. Wasatch is do-able, but much it's a very messy process. Wasatch drives more printers for the $ and in many ways is easier to use. I'd break out in a rash if i had to use Wasatch day to day because of the color management "features". But that's...

From what he described to me, Chromix is the only game. For the type of cert he got (proofing only), you profile your proofer, send the Chromix test print to them. They determine if you're close enough. If so, they send back either instructions on how to adjust your densities in the...