[argyllcms] Re: Yet another cry for help with my printer profile.

On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 09:59 +1100, Graeme Gill wrote:
> Leonard Evens wrote:
> > I still don't know if I'm using the right Pixl image.  The one I found
> > may have diagnostic help, but if so I haven't figured out how to access
> > it.   There is something at the website about a notes tool when  used
> > with photoshop, but I am working under Linux and using gimp.
> 
> It's just a test image that exercises various aspects of printing.
> You've got some technical features (stepped and continuous grey
> wedge, and rainbow), lots of grey with smooth gradations to check
> grey balance, black density, color banding, you have skin tones
> to check, blue sky, and a range of other colors.
> 
> Grey wedges you look for smoothness, proportionality and range.
> 
> > In any case, I am not asking anyone to diagnose/fix what is wrong with
> > my setup.  I am just asking what techniques/tools I can use to do that
> > myself.
> 
> It's multi-faceted when you have the scope to tweak the printer.
> One could make a several day course/tutorial out of the whole
> topic, and still only form an introduction.

Perhaps you or someone else could give me some hints about where to
start?

> 
> > use to improve the profile.  As I said previously,  I can probably proceed 
> > by
> > fiddling with gutenprint settings,  but it makes more sense to improve the
> > profile.
> 
> As I said previously, they are not interchangeable. The profile can only
> profile what the printer does, it can't fix things that you should fix
> by making the printer behave better. In particular, Argyll is not setup
> to be a "tweak" tool, it's meant to make the best of what the device does,
> and be good at mapping from one colorspace to another.
> 
> Graeme Gill.

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