Re: Calibration targets for scanner / Calibration of CUPS color laser printer (follow-up)

[Pascal de Bruijn <pmjdebruijn pcode nl>]

2010/9/27 Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE <jmpoure gooze eu>:
> Le dimanche 26 septembre 2010 à 12:22 +0200, Pascal de Bruijn a écrit :
>> It's possible using the argyll commandline tools, but most people
>> consider it useless... I haven't tried it myself...
>
> Basically, I would like to calibrate the scanner using a target print.
>
> To calibrate the screen, I plan to scan again the target and display the
> calculated colors and the scanned target. Then I can adjust manually so
> that colors are the same. Maybe Gnome-Color-Manager should be able to
> find the correction.
>
> So my question is, technically, what do we gain from using a
> spectrometer over scanning a target. Are there huge differences over the
> two methods?

You're assuming your eyes are a reliable tool, which they aren't...

I wouldn't recommend this approach...

Regards,
Pascal de Bruijn