[argyllcms] Re: Simple and preliminary profile for epson 3880
- From: Tomasz Danus <t.danus@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 18:28:32 +0100
Hi Alan,
Thanx for your quick reply.
My existing profiles are made with Argyll so it should be v2
Number of patches - well I did profiles with under 1k and 2,5k patches and,
I maybe imagine that, but I think later are a notch better to my eyes.
If no one come up with better advice I might play with CM and QTR
as advised here:
northlight-images co uk / article_pages / bw_printing / bw_print_colormunki
html
Instead of playing with preliminary profiles but for now colour prints are a
bit more important to me than B&W.
I haven't done any extensive tests or a lot of prints using Epson ABW - I
might try that as well, before playing with QTR
to see if there is any change for better.
Any other views more than welcome;]
Many thanx,
Tom
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On 20 May 2011 17:51, Alan Goldhammer <agoldhammer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think you need to ask the question whether your existing profiles are
> deficient and if so in which color regions. First you need to check whether
> any of the existing Epson profiles you have are version 2 or 4 profiles. I
> don't believe version 4 profiles will work with Argyll (I know that my
> ColorMunki software creates Version 4 profiles as a default and they are not
> read by Argyll). Personally I think you are using too many patches for
> creating Epson 3880 profiles. I used 980 patches with my ColorMunki and got
> very fine profiles as judged by a visual test print (I have an i1 spectro on
> order to refine these profiles). One other point in the p/s, you will get
> better results in B&W printing if you use the Epson ABW print driver. It
> gives you a deeper black and better (but not perfect) linearity. There are
> ways to profile the ABW print driver for improved linearity using QTR or
> having a custom profile made. At this point I don't believe Argyll supports
> creation of this type of profile though I would like to see one given the
> amount of B&W printing that I do.
>
>
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> Alan
>
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