My goal in the long run is to make a high quality profile for printing 16- bit files from cinepaint to my epson r2400 with the gutenprint driver. I will also use the very nice photoprint tool. CREATING TARGET First cinepaint is capable of printing 16-bit files. The target that argyll creates is as far as I can see 8 bit. Is it possible to create 16 bit target in argyll? READING TARGET This question is more off topic from argyll, but since it is related, I put it here. Should I disable all colormanagment in cinepaint before I read the target? I think I have read something like that for more windows based workflows. When I load the target (the ps file) in cinepaint I get a popup window named "PDF load settings". When I load a CMYK target, is it correct with this settings in this window? Intermediate format: PSD cmyk/rgb (this is the only format where I can select cmyk) Select colorspace: Cmyk Resolution: 300 It looks like cinepaint use a ISOcoated.icc profile somewhere in this import process. I can also convert the postscript file by hand to a tiff file like this gs -sDEVICE=psdcmyk -dNOPAUSE -r300 -sOutputFile=PrinterB.psd PrinterB.ps -c quit but I guess this is almost the same as cinepaint does. PRINTING TARGET I also need some guidance for the printing step itself. There is two methods in cinepaint. Direct printing or printing with a separation profile. I assume that the latter is to be used when I have made my printer profile. So I guess it's correct to use the "direct printing cmyk" option. This option require 16 bit data so I need to convert the image before I print. Before I started cinepaint I have edited my ~/cinepaint/printcap and created a new entry for the printer and paper type I plan to use. It also contain the "Parameter ColorCorrection String True "Uncorrected" line. To be sure that gutenprint don't fix the color itself. I will use this entry when I print with my created printer profile later. Anything else I have forgotten? Lars Tore Gustavsen