The problem I have is with printing the target tif image created with
printtarg, so that's way before reading the target. Perhaps the problem
lies with the print driver (I use Turboprint through the gimp plugin),
or with differences with dealing with other types of printers (mine is
an RGB printer).
The tif image created by printtarg, with or without -m -M values, is at
just 8,5 x 11 inches at my chosen resolution, or barely less. From the
Turboprint gimp plugin, I cannot make it fit into a letter size paper. I
assume that's because the printer or print driver adds a default border
around the image. I'm just wondering about the need to include into the
target image, large blank borders around the patches and the captions.
That only adds an (admittedly minor) step by forcing me to crop the
image first. On the other hand, if I'm the only one with that problem,
then that's ok, no big deal.
Le 19-11-20 à 14 h 47, Alan Goldhammer (Redacted sender agoldhammer for
DMARC) a écrit :
I'm not sure what you are trying to do. How are you reading the targets? It
looks as though you have an i1 Pro. I do as well and have printed out targets
many times for profile creation. I do all my reading manually using the
plastic scanning table that came with the instrument. There has to be white
space on both sides of the printed target. I use the exact same 'printtarg'
command that you do other than the 'T' command as I have a Canon printer. I
get margins that work perfectly on Letter size paper. I do not use the 'm' or
'M' commands. I just did a quick test with your command line and I get exactly
the same size targets as when I do them (with no 'm' and 'M').
Each row should have 21 patches.
Alan
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Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 1:47 PM
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Subject: [argyllcms] printtarg and excessive margins
Hi,
Trying to print my first printer target, this is proving quite difficult as
printtarg creates a tif with large blank margins, so it does not fit into the
Letter paper size I specified, event if I set -m0 -M0. At best it creates a tif
with exactly 8,5 x 11 inches, which would require borderless printing, an
unnecessary complication. The command I used:
printtarg -v -ii1 -R1 -T360 -pLetter -m0 -M0 pre_canson_rag_photo_310_p800_tp
The only solution I've found is to use "Image / Crop to content" in gimp, and
then center the image for printing.
Is this a but or did I not understand how to set paper size?
Thanks!
Normand Fortier
