A water-soluble phthalocyanine dye or naphthalocyanine dye with near-infrared absorption comprises at least one complexed unit. intensity of the image; and generating a noise metric from the noise table, said noise metric representing the noise appearance in the image. The subject invention also relates to processes for making such compounds as well as to intermediates useful in such processes. For the data set having the C2 error, the number of records to be skipped included in the data set having the C2 error based on and from the DSIT is obtained and indicated to the host.