[SWCL]

Thanks for the reply eye4clr, I understood about 99% of what you said

I have seen the C1, C2 etc. described in the manual or one of the profiling guides I have downloaded.. but have never managed to get that to come up in the restrictions.

It may do this time but I've not got to that stage yet. I wondered if the mode I'm trying to do it in is correct?

I'm trying to profile using the media group 'UltraChrome VarDot',
ink configuration 'CMYKcmk VarDot (Photo)',
process 'CMYK',
Mode '1440x720-MD', 'Stochastic'.. does that sound right so far?

I realise (from what I have read) that using VarDot means you can print something at 720-MD that looks similar to something printed at 1440x720 non vardot.. or at least that is what I'm lead to believe.. so profiling at such a high res in this mode may be a bit over kill but I thought I'd start high & work my way down..

Also - a problem I found when doing the JV3 profile was that when I measured the ICC patches, the mesured swatch colour was waaaay off the desired colour on the left! - what would have caused that?

Here's the screen I'm looking at now to determine drop size



Here's the swatch for dot size selection (note on +10 the ink is running off the page in RGB)




here's the over inking?? - 50% Blue, matte effect on top of the sheen


& again in 50% Green & 50 + 60% Blue


-7 CMYK weak.. RGB ok (cmyk looks ok in pics but not in the flesh)



+2 CMYK ok.. RGB pooling / running



Last one to show the sheen / reflectiveness of this 'matte' paper - to the left of 0


Hope all the pics help identify what I was trying to describe in the first place!

Chris.