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Brutus_B wrote:
No, I was saying that Ive taken the same file to get printed at the same location and gotten back different results over a matter of weeks. Thusly things change with the machine calibrations.
The whole fact that DryCreek needs to have profiles for so many locations dispite the machines being the same also helps showcase how all these machines are calibrated differently, and maintained differently. They are not one size fits all. You can guarantee me that if I take a file to a Costco in one state, and to another in a different state that I will get the same output. Even different locations in the same city can differ.
Some locations are going to have top notch staff. Some locations are going to some staffing problems. Its hit or miss, thats why some people will report great results and you'll hear other people report poor prints.
All depends on where you go, the machines they use, the state of maintainance they are in etc.
This isnt to say Costco is good or bad, but simply that each location, and its staff can and will affect your print output.
As for my opinion on using a pro lab, or a Costco, its simply that, opinion. Its no different than choosing to buy store brand soda or Coke. To each his own. I just think if you make an effort to deliver the best in every other aspect of your phtoograhy, you might as well use the best lab you can find as well. Its like why buy the sharpest lenses you can and then get a cheap tripod just to save a few bucks.
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So, when you took the same file to this location twice - had you done your color pre-press calibraion for THAT SPECIFIC PRINTER on that file?
So you could tell the staff to print the pre-profiled file with NO CORRECTIONS on the print machine?
If not - then you leave it up to the opperator to set the appropriate color balance for you, and hence you get variation of color on prints depending on the views of that opperator.
You just gave up the control of your final image color!
The whole point is - if you do your own calibration of your own files, then you can set it up exactly or that specific output device. That's 1 printer - not a family of printers, one specific printer at one location, with 1 specific type of paper.
The fact that they all have different profiles should trigger a warning in your head - if you don't bother to take that into consideration, you cannot get consistant color output.
You completely failed to understand the point of the Drycreek profiles - it's not 1 profile for CostCo, and you can go anywhere to a CostCo and use that profile.
It's one profile per machine and paper type, which is updated at regular intervals, to keep it current. So it negates the machine differences etc.
So read the Drycreek website FAQs, and learn how to avoid the color issues you describe by correctly doing your own color pre press work.
Right now - you appear to have no concept of what I'm trying to explain to you.
If you did, you wouldn't keep going on about how the staff make a difference to your prints.
THE STAFF NEVER TOUCH YOUR IMAGE FILES IN ANY WAY IF YOU DO THINGS CORRECTLY!
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