I'll put in a good word for Ethan Hansen at DCP, too. Not just for the
breadth of his website, and his making available so many free profiles. To
the extent that (since there are few Costco stores over here) I had him do a
custom profile for me, which allows mw to get spectacular results from the
Fuji Frontier minilab at my local Walmart-type store - 12x8 on FCA paper for
less than I can print them on inkjet, and if I have several to do, faster as
well. About GBP1.25 for "while I wait" service.
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Piers
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Scott Gomez
Sent: 21 August 2005 01:55
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Dry Creek Photo Custom Lab Printer profiles for Photoshop
Dry Creek Photo has custom downloadable (free) printer profiles available
for lots of locations. The object of the profiles is to allow digital
photographers to send images--pre-profiled--to various labs and get output
that matches what they intended. This page has a general discussion of the
workflow, as well as *what to tell the lab*:
http://www.drycreekphoto.com/Frontier/using_printer_profiles.htm
This page contains the downloadable profiles, ordered by US state, followed
by some non-US locations.
http://www.drycreekphoto.com/Frontier/index.html
US residents may be pleasantly surprised to find that a number of Costco
locations (which generally have very reasonable prices) use the enhanced
profiles from Dry Creek.
The intent of the profiles is producing the best possible images from the
files the lab receives. Listed for each site having a profile is the printer
and the type of paper used. For example, my local Costco uses a Noritsu 3011
and Fuji Crystal Archive paper in either Glossy or Lustre/Matte surfaces.
It's probably worthwhile for those of you interested to follow the various
links on the pages referenced above in order to get a better idea of the
whole story. I tried only to highlight the most relevant links. As soon as I
get a shot out of my E-1 that I feel is worth a large print, I intend to
give this a try.
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Scott Gomez
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