[argyllcms] Re: CMYK Profile Problem
- From: Graeme Gill <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: qcore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:06:36 +1100
qcore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I've worked out where the problem has come from.
If I do:
./colprof -v -qm -kp 0 0 1 1 1.2 -cmt -dpp /PSO_LWC_Improved-l310
Then I get this:
./icclu -fb -ip -s100 /PSO_LWC_Improved-l310.icc
0 0 0
0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 [Lab] -> Lut -> 79.330528 68.579741 51.135219
99.999999 [CMYK]
Oh, right, you were looking at the perceptual table ?
(Not that it should differ from the colorimetric table if you
didn't trigger gamut mapping.)
icclu -ff -ip -s100 PSO_LWC_Improved_eci.icm
79.330528 71.531409 55.250718 99.999999 [CMYK] -> Lut -> 13.933710 0.444178
-0.118185 [Lab]
So this (in theory) should look neutral (although see below, it won't match K
only).
But I went back through my shell history and found that I'd specified a
source profile in colprof:
./colprof -v -qm -kp 0 0 1 1 1.2 -S sRGB.icm -cmt -dpp
/PSO_LWC_Improved-l310-SsRGB
Which then gives me the odd yellow/cyan result:
./icclu -fb -ip -s100 /PSO_LWC_Improved-l310-S-sRGB.icc
0 0 0
0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 [Lab] -> Lut -> 56.619898 66.694278 71.962637
99.999999 [CMYK]
This is likely to be quite a different transform, due to the gamut
mapping from sRGB.
Why does this happen?
Because a gamut mapping from sRGB is being applied, and
the gamut mapping attempts to map the black point of the sRGB to the
black point of the printer.
Now, one of the subtleties is that the black point of a printer
as far as Argyll is concerned, is the darkest color with the same
hue as black only.
For this printer, we have :
icclu -ff -ir -s100 PSO_LWC_Improved_eci.icm
0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 100.000000 [CMYK] -> Lut -> 22.551524 1.132957
2.889973 [Lab]
Which compares with the gamut mapped sRGB black:
icclu -fb -ip -s100 PSO_LWC_Improved_eci.icm
0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 [Lab] -> Lut -> 56.737462 66.776883 71.959254
99.999999 [CMYK]
icclu -ff -ir -s100 PSO_LWC_Improved_eci.icm
56.737462 66.776883 71.959254 99.999999 [CMYK] -> Lut -> 14.666715 1.253770
3.232028 [Lab]
Which compares very well for the K only black point extrapolated from L 22 to L
14
(I compute an a* b* aim of about 1.24, 3.18).
So, working as designed, but feel free to convince me that this isn't the right
way to choose the black point for a CMYK device !
Graeme Gill.
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