[argyllcms] Re: Black&White Profiling Printing
- From: "Alan Goldhammer" <agoldhammer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:45:30 -0500
The documentation notes that you cannot do B/W profiles using Argyll and I
posed the question some months back about the changing this but Graeme
indicated that there are no plans to do so. If you have an Epson printer
with the ABW driver for doing B/W you can prepare profiles using Roy
Harrington's QTR program. Be aware that this will only work for the Windows
OS since new MacOS versions and the Epson drivers do not permit B/W printing
with profiles using the ABW driver. They require you to let the printer
manage the workflow which is problematic in that the gray scale is not
perfectly linear. You can use Argyll to read either a 21 or 51 step gray
scale for conversion by QTR into a profile.
Alan
From: argyllcms-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:argyllcms-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jose Pereira
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 11:08 AM
To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [argyllcms] Black&White Profiling Printing
Hello:
I'm trying to do a workflow for black and white printing. I am using the
"print grey" option of targen:
targen -v -d0 -f90 BW-Profile
printtarg -v -iCM -a1.0 -pA4 BW-Profile
colprof -v BW-Profile
But when I enter in colprof, I get the error:
"Error - Output device input file has unhandled color representation
'K_XYZ'"
I have read a previous answer about a similar problem:
"As noted in the documentation, Argyll doesn't currently handle more
than CMYK profiles.
Graeme Gill."
OK! but, it is possible to do monochrome printing profiles?
what is the right way to create a print test chart for Black and White
profiling ?
Thanks
Jose Pereira
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