[argyllcms] Novice can't print right
- From: Geoff Kuenning <geoff@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:07:46 -0800
Hi,
I'm just getting into color management. I bought a Colormunki and
successfully profiled both my laptop and desktop displays. Then I
followed the instructions for printer profiling. I printed color
charts on two kinds of paper (I had to guess at the ink-level
parameters) and profiled the printer (an HP Photosmart C309a).
However, when I printed a sample photograph of a wallaby in tall grass,
it came out quite a bit different than what I saw on my screen; in
particular, it was much redder. Some of the grass even looked reddish
instead of green.
I tried two printing processes: photoprint directly, and tifficc. Both
gave very similar results.
I didn't expect perfection on my first try, but these results are far
enough off that I think I must be doing something wrong. Does anybody
have suggestions for how to diagnose my mistake? Or am I expecting too
much?
--
Geoff Kuenning geoff@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to
the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a
goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just
stupid. -- James Watson
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