Using ArgyllCMS + Colormunki to produce excellent printer profiles

[pharmacist]

Even more patches: I managed to experiment with ArgyllCMS and cropping and pushing as many patches into a single sheet of A4 paper, which is easily readible by the Colormunki using my home-made ruler and I get this:

An astonishing amount of 750 patches on a single sheet of A4 and it is easily readible using a Colormunki device + my home-made ruler. The secret is enough white space before and after each row, so the Colormunki starts from reading white and ends with reading white, otherwise it will cause an error after reading a particular row.

 

[Tudor]

Excellent! I might redo my targets using the -ii1 argument. Can you post the command line?

What are the dimensions of the patches? It looks like 8,32 mm width, but what about the height?

I played with printtarg and got this command:

printtarg -v -ii1 -a1.05 -A0.85 -b -t600 -C -L -M6 -P -p230x380 A4

With the lettering slightly lowered, cropping with 1 mm margin on top, left and right, then reducing the image to A4 I got this:



The patches have the same dimensions as in my 725 target, so reading them should not be a problem. I'll have to modify the glider again, though...

 

[pharmacist]

My commands:

targen -v -d2 -G -e8 -B8 -g128 -f750 "your profile chart name"

(-g128: to get 128 steps of greys, to neutralise black&white printing, 8 white tiles + 8 black tiles)

-printtarg -v -ii1 -a0.9 -A0.6 -T360 -m2 -P -p220x325 "your profile chart name"

The generated tif-file has to be cropped and cut into a A4 sheet, leaving enough white space between the letters and the row and at the end of the row.

 

[Ria]

Love your instructional guides. I followed them very carefully to create a 475 patch icc profile and encountered an error. I can't create the icc after creating a AD_CanonPro100.t13 file. Could you please help? Thank you very much.

 

[pharmacist]

You should put adobeRGB1998.icc in the same directory, where you are producing your profile. Also after -C the whole text "freely distributable Argyll CMS created profile" should be between brackets, otherwise it thinks distributable is an argument in the command colprof.

 

[Ria]

You should put adobeRGB1998.icc in the same directory, where you are producing your profile. Also after -C the whole text "freely distributable Argyll CMS created profile" should be between brackets, otherwise it thinks distributable is an argument in the command colprof.

Thank you so much for the reply. I noticed it was the syntax problem. I had used notepad to typed up the commands and copied them over to terminal. Now, I am typing the commands directly in terminal and it works perfectly.

 

[FLMK]

Hi everybody,

I'm new to ArgyllCMS + Colormunki.

I have a problem when I use the chartread command...

I have this error:

chartread: Error - No instrument at port 1

What does it means? My colormunki is installed and plugged in.

How can I solve this problem?

Then, when will my colormunki be calibrated? Will I be asked to calibrate it?

Then, how can I profile 10x15cm papers? Will the white part of the paper be sufficient for the colormunki?

Thanks in advance.

Bye.

PS: Sorry for my english.

 

[FLMK]

Thanks for the answer.
I've only installed drivers that comes with the colormunki...
Sorry for the inconvenience.

Thanks for the explaination about how to create charts for 10x15cm papers.

Did you have problem with the 2 small square rubbers under the colormunki?

I've tried my colormunki yesterday and the 2 small rubbers blocked the reading everytimes.

So, I removed them and now I search a manner to remove the glue...

Last question: Is your profile 10x15cm optimized for black and white?

 

[palombian]

> I've tried my colormunki yesterday and the 2 small rubbers blocked the reading everytimes.

This caused for me also scratching of the (pigment) ink on some papers.
I solved this by placing a steel ruler along the row to scan.
One side of the munki glides on it, the other in the air.

This works with the Xrite targets scaled 2 on a A4 sheet, but with the much smaller Argyll patches you should make a ruler yourself (or use 2 rulers).

 

[FLMK]

Thanks.

My colormunki is now detected.

@palombian: Your measurements are correct if your Colormunki is in the air?

@cls: I've done this and I got a problem:

targen -v -d2 -G -e8 -B8 -g128 -f576 10x15cm
printtarg -v -ii1 -a0.9 -A0.6 -T360 -m2 -P -p10x15cm
chartread -v -H -T0.4 10x15cm
colprof -v -qh -S AdobeRGB1998.icc -dpp -D"Tecco High Gloss PHG260" "10x15cm"
pause

I got this error:
chartread: Error - CGATS file read error : Unable to open file '10x15cm.ti2' for reading

And effectively, I don't have a "10x15cm.ti2" file.

I only have a "10x15cm.ti1" file.

How can I have the ti2 file?

I've analyzed the "CAP750' file available on this website, and for me, I've done everything...