Hello Nikolay, maybe I missed it in one of the mails before, but which measurement device do you use? X-Rite i1 pro? Regards Jens -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: argyllcms-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:argyllcms-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Graeme Gill Gesendet: Donnerstag, 12. Mai 2011 06:06 An: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Betreff: [argyllcms] Re: {Spam?} Re: Number of patches vs. profile quality Nikolay Pokhilchenko wrote: > It's interesting question. From my experience, there is not enough 1400 patches for > profiling "unknown" RGB printer (Canon or Epson with non-original inks). The most > problems are in the darks: the printer and paper combination may have an unpredictable > behavior (steepness of device response in dark region) and the 1440 patches of OFPS is > insufficient. With 1440 patches, darks are not well characterized in 50% of cases. > There may be few patches per volume unit of the darks. Hi Nikolay, where in the dark gamut do you think this problem lies ? Towards neutral, or towards the edge of the gamut ? Graeme Gill.