[argyllcms] Re: Yet another cry for help with my printer profile.
- From: Leonard Evens <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:57:01 -0500
On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 20:36 +0100, edmund ronald wrote:
> display and printer both need to be calibratef.
>
> calibrate the display,
My display was calibrated/profiled before i began.
I've read about calibrating the printer, but the recommendation is that
I not do that until quite a bit later. Also, I'm not sure it is
necessary with my printer.
>
> download the Pixl test image
I've had troubling finding it. I did find
www.ekdahl.org/kurs/SpyderColorvision/pixl_testimage.htm
I looked at it in gimp, but it turns out it has an embedded profile
Adobe RGB. I had gimp convert it to my gimp SRGB working profile.
>
> check the display
It looks fine.
>
> adjust gutenprint density, then make a printer profile
I already did this, not with the above Pixl, but with one of my typical
images.
>
> print test image, report back here
That is basically where I am now.
What do I do next?
>
> Dr Edmund Ronald. :-)
>
> On 3/14/11, Leonard Evens <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I've produced a profile for my Epson 3880. I edit with gimp under
> > Fedora 14 Linux, and print with photoprint.
> >
> > I adjusted the density downward slightly in gutenprint's settings, and I
> > got the middle tones right, but the gamma is a bit off because the
> > lowest tones are slightly too light. The color seem to be right on. I
> > can probably get something very close to what I need by fiddling more
> > with gutenprint's settings, but I feel I should be working more with
> > the profile instead. But I don't see how to do that. The
> > documentation probably tells me what to do, but I haven't deciphered it
> > well enough to figure that out.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> > --
> > Leonard Evens len@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University
> >
> >
> >
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