Re: Looking for supporters to provide Richard H with ColorMunki Photo

[Pedro Côrte-Real <pedro pedrocr net>]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Pascal de Bruijn <pmjdebruijn pcode nl> wrote:
> Your hack was pretty cool, but it's not really handy to implement as a
> generic solution for GCM, we need no fuss solutions.

We will surely need a default mode that does that but my experience
with doing it like you do bellow is that 200 patches isn't really
reasonable. With the default settings you need 2 Letter pages to do
~190 and that generates pretty useless profiles. So to do the ~450+900
patches I ended up using for a decent profile you'd need ~15 pages
which is a terrible waste of paper and ink.

Like Richard says, it would be great to have the profiling instruments
defined in a config somewhere, so that one can define a "Munki" and a
"Pimped-out Munki". Exposing the argyll config flags in an "Advanced"
UI probably makes sense too as people doing color profiling would tend
to be advanced users.

> This works very well for me... and would be a great default for medium quality:
>  argyll-targen -v -d2 -f 210 xxx

I ended up only getting good results at 450+900 patches. I suppose
lower than that could also work. This should probably be given as an
option to the user. Maybe a slider with markings or poor - basic -
good - great and an automatic calculation of how many pages it is
going to print, so that the user can do the tradeoff himself.

>  printtarg -v -i CM -h -T 300 -p A4 xxx

My hack uses "-i i1". I haven't used the -T one. What does increasing
the resolution help with?

>  colprof -q m -a l xxx

"-a l" is default and I had also "-c mt" and "-d pp". Maybe they are
not really needed.

Cheers,

Pedro