On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 07:24 +0200, edmund ronald wrote: > Here is the Brilliant paper site: > > > http://brilliantpaper.com/ > > > You can find ICC profiles there. There are some remarks on the net > that say that some of the profiles may not be very good. I did that. Look at what I said when I posed the original question. They gave me three .icc files with no way to decide which one to use. > > > By the way, as I need to test media at the moment, I will make a > profile for any printer for any person who sends me a box of the media > with the target in - not exactly a free profile but pretty close :) > > > Edmund > > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Leonard Evens > <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 16:35 -0500, Leonard Evens wrote: > > Last August I purchased an Epson 3880 printer at Calumet > Photo in > > Chciago.. The next day while cycling I suffered a traumatic > brain > > injury, so it was some time before I got to using the > printer. I > > started by making some prints with Epson PPPG paper using > Photoshop > > under Windows. I then made a profile for PPPG paper under > Linux using > > argyllcms and made some prints using that, printing with > Photoprint. > > > > I now want to make large prints. At the time I bought the > printer, I > > bought, on the recommendation of the salesman at Calumet, > some Brilliant > > Paper, which, I think, is Calumet's store brand. I just > went to their > > website and tried to download the right "PC" icc profile. > But I got a > > zip file including three profiles and I don't know which to > use. I've > > sent them some email to find out. But in the meantime, I > would like to > > examine the three profiles. iccdump can't handle V4 > profiles. Is > > there something else I can use? > > > > Also, if I understand correctly, using Photoshop, if I > specify the > > paper, I can let the printer software handle everything and > get > > reasonable results. But that software won't know about > Brilliant paper. > > I have a postit stuck to the package saying something about > using Epson > > Semi gloss profiles, which reflects something the salesman > told me. > > But, although I've recovered almost completely from the > traumatic brain > > injury, I still remember little of what happened about that > time. Can > > anyone conjecture about what that might mean? > > Sorry for the typo in the subject line. > > -- > Leonard Evens len@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern > University > > > >