Fancy Graphics Galore

By Gerard Kingma
Boy, Norman Koren certainly has a helluva lot more brain cells in his mathematical drawer than I do. Recently I bought Mr. Koren'sGamutvisionbecause I wanted to find out whether I'd done right in buyingPrintFIX Proto make profiles for my HP Designjet 130. I saw more mathematical wizardry than my linguistically oriented brain could handle.
Even though I don't understand half of the math in Mr. Koren's instructive manual for Gamutvision, I do have a basic grasp of the underlying principles and even though I am on a budget, I do take color management very seriously. Otherwise, what would be the point of shooting 4 x 5" on Velvia, scanning the plates on a Polaroid SprintScan 45U, post-processing the scans in Adobe Photoshop CS2 and sending them to a HP Designjet 130 in order to make 24" x 28" fine-art prints, as I do?
When I bought PrintFIX Pro, my initial thoughts were moderately positive. In the real-world print that I chose to test at the time, the end result showed a ...