[argyllcms] Re: Of ink limiting and maximizing gamut

  • From: Martin Weberg <martin.weberg@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:53:36 +0100

Hi Devadas!

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 05:50, Devadas Varma wrote:
> Then I used Chroma based ink limiting (c in Lch or a combination of a and b
> in L*a*b), and this worked much better. To my surprise, the ink limits were
> lower than I was used to in Density based setup. But this was still high ink
> limits. I kept the ink limits fairly high (but lower than density based,
> especially Cyan did reverse chroma).

The way I see it, the problem with using solely chroma is that the
chroma value may continue to increase even after an unacceptable hue
shift. Therefore, as you wrote, using a/b or a combination is good
advice.

Martin Weberg

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