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by Gerard Kingma
After the publication ofFancy Graphics Galore - Some observations on Gamutvision and PrintFIX Proon this site in October 2006 - which you may want to read first if you haven't done so before - I was contacted by two members from the Luminous Landscape community, Greg Endler from the USA and Jan Klabacka, a Czech living in Norway. Independently from each other, they made me the offer to produce additional profiles for the HP Designjet 130 with other third-party profiling packages than PrintFIX Pro. As I had mixed feelings about the results with PrintFIX Pro, I was curious to see how other products would perform, so I gladly accepted their respective offers. I downloaded their various targets, printed these and sent Jan and Greg the resulting prints; they processed the printed targets and sent me their profiles by e-mail. As it turned out, I was in for a bumpy ride, and in for some big surprises.
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