[argyllcms] Re: How do I examine a V4 icc profile and related questions.
- From: Leonard Evens <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 09:19:54 -0500
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 07:24 +0200, edmund ronald wrote:
> Here is the Brilliant paper site:
>
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> http://brilliantpaper.com/
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>
> You can find ICC profiles there. There are some remarks on the net
> that say that some of the profiles may not be very good.
I did that. Look at what I said when I posed the original question.
They gave me three .icc files with no way to decide which one to use.
>
>
> By the way, as I need to test media at the moment, I will make a
> profile for any printer for any person who sends me a box of the media
> with the target in - not exactly a free profile but pretty close :)
>
>
> Edmund
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Leonard Evens
> <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 16:35 -0500, Leonard Evens wrote:
> > Last August I purchased an Epson 3880 printer at Calumet
> Photo in
> > Chciago.. The next day while cycling I suffered a traumatic
> brain
> > injury, so it was some time before I got to using the
> printer. I
> > started by making some prints with Epson PPPG paper using
> Photoshop
> > under Windows. I then made a profile for PPPG paper under
> Linux using
> > argyllcms and made some prints using that, printing with
> Photoprint.
> >
> > I now want to make large prints. At the time I bought the
> printer, I
> > bought, on the recommendation of the salesman at Calumet,
> some Brilliant
> > Paper, which, I think, is Calumet's store brand. I just
> went to their
> > website and tried to download the right "PC" icc profile.
> But I got a
> > zip file including three profiles and I don't know which to
> use. I've
> > sent them some email to find out. But in the meantime, I
> would like to
> > examine the three profiles. iccdump can't handle V4
> profiles. Is
> > there something else I can use?
> >
> > Also, if I understand correctly, using Photoshop, if I
> specify the
> > paper, I can let the printer software handle everything and
> get
> > reasonable results. But that software won't know about
> Brilliant paper.
> > I have a postit stuck to the package saying something about
> using Epson
> > Semi gloss profiles, which reflects something the salesman
> told me.
> > But, although I've recovered almost completely from the
> traumatic brain
> > injury, I still remember little of what happened about that
> time. Can
> > anyone conjecture about what that might mean?
>
> Sorry for the typo in the subject line.
>
> --
> Leonard Evens len@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern
> University
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