Alan, I will have weekend off to play with it, with slight variation of A4 paper and CM. and will let you know how it worked for me. Regards Tom -- t.danus@xxxxxxxxx Skype: Ithilstone On 7 July 2011 00:40, Alan Goldhammer <agoldhammer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have not read the target yet and will do so tomorrow. However, here is > what I used for the i1 pro.**** > > ** ** > > targen -v -d0 -G -e1 -f51 51_ABW (I set the number of white patches to 1 > with the '-e' command knowing that for an i1 with letter size paper, three > rows of 21 will be created and you will get extra white patches anyway)*** > * > > ** ** > > printtarg -v -ii1 -t100 -pLetter 51_ABW (I don't see any reason to print > using higher than 100dpi for profile targets. This gives me a nice target > of three rows to read and you have plenty of space to print out a second > randomized chart if you want by just feeding the paper in a second time, > remembering to reverse it).**** > > ** ** > > I'll use the chartread command that I already listed below to read the > chart and get the values. This can then be used by the QTR-Create-ICC.exe > to create the profile. It looks like this should be pretty > straightforward as compared to color profiling.**** > > ** ** > > Alan** > > ** ** > > *From:* argyllcms-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: > argyllcms-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Tomasz Danus > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 06, 2011 6:14 PM > > *To:* argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > *Subject:* [argyllcms] Re: FW: Profiling Epson ABW Print Driver**** > > ** ** > > Alan, > > Would you mind shering how exactly did you prepare the > 51 step wedge using targen?? > > or maybe if the whole process will work out U could prepare a simple > tutorial for those of us ( > like me) that just recenty started digging deep (using argyll) into colour > profiling;] > -- > t.danus@xxxxxxxxx > Skype: Ithilstone > > **** > > On 6 July 2011 21:08, Alan Goldhammer <agoldhammer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:**** > > Uli, > > Thanks. Just as you were posting I was looking at the options for > 'chartread' and I figured this out as well. It's easy enough to prepare > the > 51 step wedge using targen and then move through the Argyll tools to read > it. I'm going to give this method a try. I just use the following command > to read the file: chartread -v -l 51_step_ti2 This then gives me a ti3 > file that I can open in Excel and sort for use in QTR.**** > > > Alan > > -----Original Message----- > From: argyllcms-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: > argyllcms-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]**** > > On Behalf Of Uli Oertel > Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 3:59 PM**** > > To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [argyllcms] Re: FW: Profiling Epson ABW Print Driver**** > > Hi, > > it's relatively simple to read the 51-step wedge with chartread (you > must have a *.ti2) and i1Pro: you have to measure Lab data, the results > you have to sort (for L) and then you may save only the Lab data as > *.txt file. A sample file may only have text like this:**** > > >>>> Rest snipped out <<<<<<<<< > > **** > > ** ** >