On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Rob Z. Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry if I was less than clear - Argyle doesn't do the printing but does
> generate a test image for you to print.
>
> It is important that you print the image with the print driver and
> settings you will use for printing your final photographs (but with no
> profile selected) as, at least in theory, any change to print driver
> settings may require a new profile. This is why I recommended earlier
> starting without profiles and getting a generally working gutenprint.
> Getting a reasonably neutral base print is a solid base for then
> correcting fully with a profile, or so I found anyway.
>
> Caution: This does take time and effort. If you are just going to use
> one type of paper and ink it is much easier and cheaper (but less fun) to
> get someone else to generate that single custom profile for you.
>
> Do spend lots of time reading at www.argyllcms.com/doc where you will
> find an unbelievable amount of knowledge and tools including the following.
> I think in principle you may want to:
> a) use targen to create an RGB test image (not CMYK). Note that the
> documentation for this gives specifi ColorMunki recommendations for patch
> numbers on various paper sizes.
> b) use printtarg to create a printable postscript or .tiff file from this.
> c) print the chart with your favourite print driver (gutenprint or
> photoprint) using consistent driver settings.
> d) use chartread to drive the ColorMunki and produce a calibration data
> file from your print.
> c) use colprof to read the above data file and produce your .icc profile
>
> There is a lot of flexibility and options for the tools :-) Read, read,
> read. A quick net search found thread 3174601 on dpreview which gave a
> usage example and specific parameters for the above parameters, but in the
> past I do remember finding better tutorial examples.
>
I'm quite aware of Argyll's capabilities and how it is to be used...
However that's not the main issue at hand...
It would seem that gutenprint's tuning upstream is less than optimal for
some printer models. At least that's my best guess at the moment, I'm still
trying to figure that out.
Regards,
Pascal de Bruijn
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