Hello Mike.

The printed test results of 8.42 look very good.

Incidently a few days ago a visitor with a good critical eye compared my test prints of 8.0, 8.1, 8.3, 8.4 and 8.41. 8.41 was quickly deemed to produce the most realistic colours.

This morning I foolishly put the IT8 on a cushion while I fetched something from another room. When I came back my cat was sitting on the IT8!

There's now about 5 small creases in the IT8. Is this likely to effect results? If so, how do I go about purchasing a new IT8?

Thanks    

Regards

Peter

I can vouch for what Terry says, first hand.
I had an old, presumably, faded target. Mike deemed it 12 years old from the charge number.
So I got a new target, and I have the new ddi created file that goes with it.

I was a staunch supported of 8.41... still am, but 8.42 is a truer color with the Wolf Faust file or the ddi file.

I have a full envelope of test prints and lay them out under the Ott light... Some change is barely noticeable, and some changes are readily visible.
The most noticeable is the Matte paper improvement in the red family.

Fred
 

I mentioned that I screw up 50% of the time, forgetting to fix the name.
He said he will have a look after he gets the new PP working perfectly.
After making so many new profiles, I was able to see what MY problem was.
I was setting the new file name and new descriptor and then recalling the previous profile job with all the corner brackets in place.
Whammo! The filename and descriptor went back to the original settings.
So I had to train myself to recall first and rename second.

Fred

Hi, Terry, Fred,

I have not profiled for a while, nor ordered a new target.

Please explain this statement "Mike which will mean you can use his calibration of it rather than the Wolf-Faust version"

From memory, the two targets I received (a few years ago, and a few years apart), were only the Hard Copy,
where does Mikes Calibration come into it?

Cheers

Daniel

Hi Daniel!

Years ago, in the beginning, (sounds like some  book I read a long time ago), there was the paper  target followed by a Q Kodak target.
Then came the IT-8 with many many more patches for accuracy.
These It-8 targets come with small .TXT files which have the same number as the Target. These text files tweak the IT-8 for accuracy.

Mike's latest batch of IT-8 targets are from a batch that carries the (R130730) Charge number. It naturally and usually comes with a TXT file with the same number that should show in the Profile Prism working window.  This is for accuracy.
Mike has a Spectrophotometer ( a big word for rectal thermometer) which adds perfection to the TXT file that comes with the target.
This will be an R130730.ddi.txt file which he will supply with any target purchased from this batch and subsequent batches of targets.
That's the story

Fred

That cat showed its true colors.!

Fred

Just out of curiosity Mike, how much different were the values you read with your spectrophotometer versus the values supplied by Wolf-Faust?  Do you think that a ColorMunki would be up to the task of spot-reading patches from an IT-8?  My original from you is getting pretty old and scratched up, but I acquired a couple from stuff packaged with old AGFA flatbed scanners that are in near pristeen condition.  Being at least 15 years old, (although stored in a cool, dark place) I question whether the data files for them are still accurate.