Hello,
You have already got a lot of good suggestions to solve the problem. You
don't say what Epson printer you are using. You haven't told us what
program you use for printing. You write: *"**I've printed with my own
created icc profile, with the icc of the paper manufacter, as well with the
standard icc profiles of my epson printer but none of them seem to work." *The
Prof check looks ok so I don't think there is anything wrong with The Eye
One. Apparently there is something wrong even when you use other profiles.
So I think there maybe something wrong with the settings of the printer.
Have you choosen the correct kind of paper for the printer? There may be to
much ink for the kind of paper you are using. You could also try some other
program to print from for example Q-image. But as others have said you must
print the charts without color correction with for example Adobe Color
Printer Utility,
Per
2018-07-30 14:50 GMT+02:00 mattia tiberi <tiberimattia@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
Thanks a lot for your quick and valuable responses :)
I didn't print the test charts with the Adobe Color Printer Utility, so
probably that's why the colors are darker, etc..
I will follow (all) your suggestions and repeat the printer profiling.
Warm regards,
Mattia
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [argyllcms] Re: Dark colors and very poor gray scale after
printer profiling
From: edmund ronald
To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
CC:
Before looking for hardware issues, one should first check whether one is
applying the profile correctly, and then whether the profiling target was
printed correctly.
A way to check whether the profile is being applied correctly is to take
an image file "convert to profile" in Photoshop, save the new file, and
print it using ACPU.
Edmund
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 1:20 PM, Alan Goldhammer <
dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The error values that you posted are good and generally what I observe
when profiling my Epson 3880 printer. You say there is “little variation
among the profiles” but don’t define what that means.
Two quick things occur to me. Perhaps the i1 is out of specification.
You can download the i1 Diagnostics software from X-Rite and do a quick
check to address that. The second is whether you printed out the patch set
WITHOUT color management. I always use the Adobe Color Print Utility to do
this since Photoshop generally does not allow one to print without color
management (there is a null transform way of doing this but the ACPU is
easier to use). Do let us know how you printed out the patch set. As
Graeme noted in his response, it’s more likely a workflow issue.
One other observation, using –g128 is overkill IMO. I routinely use –g51
in the final patch set (I do a precondition profile first to establish a
preliminary profile).
Alan
*From:* argyllcms-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:argyllcms-bounce@freel
ists.org] *On Behalf Of *mattia tiberi
*Sent:* Sunday, July 29, 2018 5:24 PM
*To:* argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [argyllcms] Dark colors and very poor gray scale after
printer profiling
Hello,
I've recently bought a used eye one pro, I' ve used it to calibrate my pc
monitor and to read 1764 patches.
I've printed with my own created icc profile, with the icc of the paper
manufacter, as well with the standard icc profiles of my epson printer but
none of them seem to work.
Except from little variations among the profiles, the printed colors are
much more darker and the gray scale is very poor from the soft proofing on
Photoshop. Some image parts with gray shades are printed black!!
The Argyllcms commands that I used to generate the profile are:
1) targen -v -d2 -G -g128 -f1764 eye_one_result
2) printtarg -v -ii1 -R1 -T300 -p A4 eye_one_result
3) chartread -v -H -T0.4 eye_one_target_result
4) colprof -v -qH -r1.0 -D"Polyester MatteBlack FineArtMattePaper"
eye_one_result
5) profcheck -k eye_one_result.ti3 eye_one_result.icm
Profile check complete, errors(CIEDE2000): max. = 1.617668, avg. =
0.349918, RMS = 0.398709
Do you have any ideas why is this happening?
Thanks in advance.
Greetings from Munich,
Mattia
