Kodak IT8 5x7 Reflective Target for Calibrating Scanners and Other Digital Color Devices.
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Greg R : I have a Cannon 9000F scanner. How would I use this to adjust the colors in the image produced by scanning one of my photos? By scanning this image can I load the result into Photoshop or Light Room and with the downloadable file that goes with this target, create a correction curve to be applied to the scans I create using my scanner?KEVIN Z : You would need software to generate an ICC profile for your scanner. The software would analyze a scan of the IT8 target. The ICC profile could be added to an open image in photoshop if that image was scanned under the same conditions as the IT8 target.
I had bad luck getting it to work and the Mac software I used is gone now.
Your best bet is to get one of the high end color systems from x-rite that includes scanner profiling.
Best wishes,
KevinROBERT C : I use an Epson V700 Photo Scanner with Vue Scan software. The Vue Scan software does allow you to do exactly what you are asking but I'm not sure about Canon software. You should be able to scan in the Kodak Target or get a profile from the kodak website that you can import to your printer.
Hope this helps.ROBERT D : Profiling your scanner may require the purchase of a third-party color management software package by a vendor such as Chromix or X-Rite. These packages have provision for profiling scanners, monitors and printers. They are not necessarily low-cost packages, but if you're scanning important photos proper color management is critical to achieving consistent results. The manuals and help files included with the software will show you the correct procedures for profiling your scanner.JORDAN S : The adjustment is done by the scanning software itself, which means that the scanning software has to have the capacity to do this; by the time it reaches Photoshop, a lot of the dynamic range is already lost. I very strongly recommend VueScan; it has a somewhat user-unfriendly interface, but is a very capable, flexible, reliable program. Do turn off the autoexposure feature, which often produces odd results.
At the same time, I have found that automatic profile correction is not what it is all blown up to be, because the scanned result ultimately has to match our perception of the image, rather than what it "objectively" looks like, and there are so many variations like base color, paper color, monitor color, etc. I now scan everything with pretty much "default" settings, and adjust manually in photoshop. I did use the IT8 target to develop my own "starting point" settings that I apply to all scans, and almost always get satisfactory results. See Ken Rockwell's humorous treatise on this subject, "Color Management is for Wimps".PAUL P : I am sorry that I will not be able to help you. I did receive the IT8 target but have never used it. In fact I never even opened it.
Shinobu T : Will this work with MonocoEZColor ?Kevin M : I don't know, Shinobu T. Be aware that for an IT8 taget to work you also need some sort of profiling software to compare the colors from the target with a digital reference file that you will need as well.ROBERT D : The IT8 target is a recognized standard for calibrating scanners. Any well equipped color management program should be able to use it.ROBERT C : I'm sorry, I don't know.
I used it to calibrate and Epson V700 scannerROGER U : I am not sure what the question means but perhaps some comments will help.
The fact that the target is produced by Kodak is not a limiting consideration. It means that the actual piece of paper with colors printed on it has been measured by a calibrated sensor under conditions of illumination that are standardized. You can find the table of numbers on the internet using the address included with the piece of paper. The format of this table is standardized and should be readable by software designed to use a calibrated target. Your scanner and its software should be capable of using these resources but I have no way of knowing if this is the case. It is a question for the vendors of these components, not the vendor of the target.
Margie D : I bought the Kodak Q-60 Color Input Target for reflectives.
I found the refered to web page with the proper data for my target, but there is no download button. Am I missing something? Is there a disc that should have been bought at the same time?
Margie DROBERT M : There was not a download button as i remember. However, if you do a search for Kodak Q-60 Target files then you should be able to find a ftp directory of kodak where you can download the files. I remember, it took a few tries to find the kodak site.BRYAN M : The page is specified on the Q-60 color target. It is an FTP site. (FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. Don't know how much you know about this, nor how much you care! :) ) The FTP site will just show a list of folders and files, like a computer disk directory. Clicking on a folder changes to that folder. Clicking (or Right clicking) on a file will copy the file to your computer.
Anyway, the lower right of the target states that this is a Q60R2 Target (at least mine does). That means that the data file is located in the R2 folder. Click on the folder that matches your color target.
You should then be presented with several files, all with a Q60 extension. If you look at the lower left side of your color target, you will see a number, kind of like a year and month. Mine shows 2011:02. You should find a matching .Q60 file on the FTP site. (Mine is R2201102.Q60) In my browser if you right click on the file, it will present you with a pop up menu, with "Save Link As..." as one option. If you select that option, you will (eventually - the FTP site is sometimes quite slow to respond) be presented with a File Save dialog. Specify where you want the file copied and it will be copied to your computer.
Hope that helps. (Sorry if I was too wordy or unclear.)LYDIA R : Hi,
I believe I have an aswer to your question, but the Adorama web site's question answering mechanism won't let me embed the links you need to go to in order to address your problem. Grrrrrr!
If you copy the following link and remove all the spaces it should take you to what I tried to put in my reply.
ATB,
Lydia.
h t t p : / / c o t e g a u c h e . c o m / s c a n n e r . t x tROGER U : You need to have software installed that interprets the scan of the target and uses the data in the file you get from Kodak. In my case I have something called Kodak Colorflow ICC input profile builder. This software and a transparency target came with a prepress scanner I purchased about 8 years ago and I am sure that software is no longer available. I recently purchased a less expensive but still professional class scanner from Epson and it came with a similar software system from Xrite and the package included a similar target produced by Monoco systems instead of Kodak. If you have a profile builder, it has resources to ingest the files giving the photometric data. The format of these is standardized so that different profile builder packages can read them. Color management is a difficult task and can take a fair amount of time. However, without it, you really do not know what you are going to get when you print or reproduce images.Margie D : Thank you.JAMES S : Create a file location for your target data and copy the page of data for your referenced target to the file for use when profiling the scanner.
Hope this helps.JOHNNY H : When you find the proper .q60 file in my case it was R2201007.q60, you have to right click on it and select save link as, then save it to your hard drive. You will then need to copy or move the file to the location where your scanner software requires it unless of course you saved it to the required location to begin with. You may also be able to point the software to this file within your chosen application.TASHINA M : ok...try that photo link again...
graphicedgeprinting,com/images/photo,JPGTASHINA M : oh...and in the addresses replace the "," with periods.TASHINA M : ok, got it straightened out.
go here ftp,kodak,com/gastds/q60data
if you look at your yellow kodak envelope and your calibration sheet you should see something like this: graphicedgeprinting,com/photo,jpg
use that info to determine which files you should download.
the middle bit of info on the very bottom line will tell you what folder to go to (for mine it is R2).
Once you're in that folder, the date to the left of that will determine your file.
based on my photo for mine the file I needed was "R2201102.Q60"
Breakdown of the file name - (R2) the type (2011) the year (02) the month
you can right-click on the filename and select "Save link as".
That should take care of things for you.
Hope that helps!MANUEL G : As far as I know, the calibration data is a text file. Can you give the website url and the type of device you need the calibration for?TASHINA M : I remeber it was a pain to figure out the download. Do you want me to email you the file?
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2013-06-10T21:00:00
Rated 4 out of 5
Good Price for a Good Target
+ standard IT8 target + reasonable price + documented on website - small - hard to fill camera frame - very reflective of glare - need to mount on flat surface for stability I used double-side tape to mount the target on a small piece of plexiglass. Otherwise it may blow off and warp.
excel
2012-12-13T19:00:00
Rated 5 out of 5
Increasingly hard to find
These original Kodak paper Q-60R2 reflective (IT8) targets are increasingly difficult to find. There are other manufacturers who make them, but none quite like the Kodak originals, which are no longer made since 2011 (you can download the required matching digital file from Kodak's site at least for now). The target was packaged in original materials and had never been opened.
Pete
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Increasingly hard to find
By Pete
These original Kodak paper Q-60R2 reflective (IT8) targets are increasingly difficult to find. There are other manufacturers who make them, but none quite like the Kodak originals, which are no longer made since 2011 (you can download the required matching digital file from Kodak's site at least for now). The target was packaged in original materials and had never been opened.
IT8 Input Targets are the industry standard, and are needed to create profiles for scanners, digital cameras, and PhotoCD.
Every IT8 target is matched with a "reference file" -- a computer data file that contains the numerical values for the exact colors used in the target. Because your profiling software must compare the colors from the target with the reference file, it's important to be sure you're using the reference file that matches your target.
