Can ICC profile that has been created by Xrite i1 publish pro 2 be edited?

[Ink stained Fingers]

There are lots of reviews on the internet dealing with monitor calibration - Datacolor Spyder vs. ColorMunki, but I can't find anything relevant comparing the corresponding print profiling solutions, this is about the only recommendation in this respect I found
https://imagescience.com.au/products/calibrators/system-calibrators

 

[stratman]

Reviews of DIY printer and monitor calibration calibration devices and mail order custom ICC profile businesses:

http://www.color-management-guide.com/printer-calibration.html

Good basic information on the processes of calibration.

 

[Roy Sletcher]

Reviews of DIY printer and monitor calibration calibration devices and mail order custom ICC profile businesses:

http://www.color-management-guide.com/printer-calibration.html

Good basic information on the processes of calibration.

Thanks Stratman. Invaluable information and just what I was looking for to purchase a custom profile.


For those who are interested in wide gamut monitors and their calibration, I have been following the site below for a couple of years and learned a lot from it. It is also right up to date. I suspect the anonymous author is an insider in the industry. It also indicates that not all monitors are equal or even capable of accurate calibration.

Direct quote in a message from DigitalDig, "The author is anonymous, going by the alias ColorConsultant. But the guy knows his stuff and this really IS in my opinion, a Cogent Explanation of Color Management! It's very thorough and a tad color geeky but very well written and very accurate. The guy knows his stuff! It's rare to find this kind of well done piece on color management and I hope whoever this fellow is, he keeps providing such articles."


https://photographylife.com/how-to-calibrate-dell-wide-gamut-monitors


rs

 

[The Hat]

Boy, am I glad I don’t bother with any profiling, I just alter my Media setting on the printer to get a colour output suitable for my needs, if it needs an extra bit of tweaking then I use the Colour/Intensity set to Manual, I use a Eizo FlexScan HD Monitor and I don’t profile that either, this setup has always worked for me...

 

[Ink stained Fingers]

Life can be so easy...

 

[jtoolman]

Thanks Stratman. Invaluable information and just what I was looking for to purchase a custom profile.


For those who are interested in wide gamut monitors and their calibration, I have been following the site below for a couple of years and learned a lot from it. It is also right up to date. I suspect the anonymous author is an insider in the industry. It also indicates that not all monitors are equal or even capable of accurate calibration.

Direct quote in a message from DigitalDig, "The author is anonymous, going by the alias ColorConsultant. But the guy knows his stuff and this really IS in my opinion, a Cogent Explanation of Color Management! It's very thorough and a tad color geeky but very well written and very accurate. The guy knows his stuff! It's rare to find this kind of well done piece on color management and I hope whoever this fellow is, he keeps providing such articles."


https://photographylife.com/how-to-calibrate-dell-wide-gamut-monitors


rs

"The Digital Dog" is Andrew Rodney!
I has a pedigree in Color Engineering and Overall Printing Technology great than my and your arm put together.
He has actually made profiles for EPSON the company!
So in short, the guy is an unparalleled authority in the subject!

Joe

 

[jtoolman]

Boy, am I glad I don’t bother with any profiling, I just alter my Media setting on the printer to get a colour output suitable for my needs, if it needs an extra bit of tweaking then I use the Colour/Intensity set to Manual, I use a Eizo FlexScan HD Monitor and I don’t profile that either, this setup has always worked for me...

I actually like that.
When you place a glass of beer in front of the hat, he doesn't need to see a chemical analysis of it. You smell it, you swish it and down that sucker.
There are many times I simple just let the driver do it's thing.
CANON and EPSON did their homework! It actually does work.

Joe

 

[stratman]

There are many times I simple just let the driver do it's thing.
CANON and EPSON did their homework! It actually does work.

With non-OEM inks and/or non-OEM papers? If so, is that for print jobs you sell or show?

 

[lin]

As explained earlier I'm using i1Profiler but I'm not aware how to tune a profile lighter or darker since this is not the purpose of a profile. I would typically do some adjustments in the program I'm using for printout - Qimage - e.g. adjusting the image gamma slightly.

There is a question directly connected to it - the printout appears to be too dark compared to ??? your monitor ? or viewed in a light box ? If this is your assumption you may read some other comments to this effect here http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/why-are-my-prints-too-dark/
And I would guess that you get a good enough profile with about 1000 patches - 1 A4 sheet unless to need to print particular colors correctly , with the abs. col. rendering intent.

The profile was good enough for me except that like I was mentioning above that I find it a bit dark. I was comparing with normal light like one would as they were holding a photo and not those professional light box. I tried to hold it under direct light (near to the light source). I still find the photo a bit dark such that it's losing a lot of details. It just feel that the photo printed with the custom profile a little bit too saturated. At the end of the day, a photo that is printed with a custom icc profile, it has to look comfortable to you. Not too much color shift to yellow/red/green/blue etc but has an overall balance. And if it's too dark or too light or color shift/color cast, you won't want to look at it.

And thanks to all other response, however I would need to take a bit of time to read and digest it.

 

[Roy Sletcher]

Boy, am I glad I don’t bother with any profiling, I just alter my Media setting on the printer to get a colour output suitable for my needs, if it needs an extra bit of tweaking then I use the Colour/Intensity set to Manual, I use a Eizo FlexScan HD Monitor and I don’t profile that either, this setup has always worked for me...

Absolutely agree 100% - to each his own

"Perfection is the enemy of excellence" - an old maxim that I find particularly applicable to colour management and when and trying to make great looking prints.


rs