What is mk6 in an icc profile name?

ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
edited May 14, 2009 in Finishing School
I know that mk means matte black. But what does the 6 mean?
If not now, when?

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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited May 12, 2009
    profiles are given names by humans aren't they?

    6th iteration, maybe?
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  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited May 13, 2009
    pathfinder wrote:
    profiles are given names by humans aren't they?

    6th iteration, maybe?

    I think there is some system to it. I found documentation of mk7 (means auto selection of no process black for B&W areas of images.)

    Anyway, I used my eyes and mk6 looked better than mk for my B&W.
    If not now, when?
  • arodneyarodney Registered Users Posts: 2,005 Major grins
    edited May 13, 2009
    rutt wrote:
    I know that mk means matte black. But what does the 6 mean?

    What profile?
    Andrew Rodney
    Author "Color Management for Photographers"
    http://www.digitaldog.net/
  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited May 13, 2009
    ep4000mk6_gray_EnhancedMatte2880, for example. It's a profile that ImagePrint has for the Epson R4000 loaded with matte black (as opposed to photo black) ink with Epson enhanced matte paper, use no process black at 2880 dpi. It all makes sense except that 6.
    If not now, when?
  • arodneyarodney Registered Users Posts: 2,005 Major grins
    edited May 13, 2009
    rutt wrote:
    ep4000mk6_gray_EnhancedMatte2880, for example. It's a profile that ImagePrint has for the Epson R4000 loaded with matte black (as opposed to photo black) ink with Epson enhanced matte paper, use no process black at 2880 dpi. It all makes sense except that 6.

    Image print has illuminant specific profiles, I assume that's what the 6 might correlate to. You'd have to ask them.
    Andrew Rodney
    Author "Color Management for Photographers"
    http://www.digitaldog.net/
  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited May 13, 2009
    See below for a excerpt from the menu ImagePrint offers. You can see that the illuminants are last in the names and not present with "gray" which means not to use the color inks, which makes illumant less important or unimportant.

    Anyway, I will ask them as you suggest.

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    If not now, when?
  • arodneyarodney Registered Users Posts: 2,005 Major grins
    edited May 14, 2009
    Any chance you're running version 6 of IP?
    Andrew Rodney
    Author "Color Management for Photographers"
    http://www.digitaldog.net/
  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited May 14, 2009
    arodney wrote:
    Any chance you're running version 6 of IP?

    Nope. Sort of wish I were, I'd be hundreds of dollars richer and I'd understand it better. But it wouldn't run on OS X 10.5.
    If not now, when?
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