[argyllcms] Re: Scanin - using more general profiles...

  • From: "Lars Tore Gustavsen" <ltgustavsen@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:02:22 +0100

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:42 AM, Alastair M. Robinson
<profiling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In case anyone's interested in why I should want to do such a thing, I'm
> trying to pin down the source of some non-monoticities I'm seeing with
> Gutenprint in raw mode, and trying to determine whether the cause is
> mechanical or something to do with the dither algorithms.  I'm "printing" a
> scannable n-colour testchart, running it through Gutenprint's "unprint"
> utility, downsampling the resulting *huge* PNM file to a more
> moderately-sized TIFF, then feeding that to scanin. Seems a long way round,
> but it gives me a .ti3 which I can then analyze in the same way as genuine
> printed-then-spectro-read charts.
>
> Hopefully in the next few days I'll be able to make available the stuff I've
> been working on with Gutenprint and printer-tuning - including a utility for
> printing DeviceN tiffs, as produced by printtarg, in raw mode.
>
> All the best,
> --
> Alastair M. Robinson
>
>

I'm really looking forward to this. This will be highly appreciate
when it's done.
Maybe you should also mentions the wiki entry about this:

http://gimp-print.wiki.sourceforge.net/Linearization

Cheers
Lars Tore Gustavsen

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