[argyllcms] Re: If I change my paper should I reprofile my printer?

  • From: adam k <aak1946@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 11:04:35 -0400

Could elaborate on this?
I thought people profiled 4880 and other printers using Argyll.

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On Apr 8, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Graeme Gill <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> ltkun wrote:
>> I have another problem now. My 1390 has six ink. So when I am creating a 
>> print profile
>> test chart ,can I use "targen -d6 " to produce a test chart ? When I have 
>> done this ,
>> and printed the chart ,I get a grey picture. Is it normal?
>
> Argyll won't create profiles for printers a print driver that
> has more than 4 inks. What colorspace does your print driver
> expect ? Checking an existing ICC profile is one way of
> determining this.
>
> (i.e. the actual physical number of inks is irrelevant if
> you can't get to them via the print driver, because it
> converts some other space like RGB or CMYK into the
> physical ink channels.)
>
> Graeme Gill.
>

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