Hi Pascal, I would suggest giving 'photoprint' at http://blackfiveimaging.co.uk/index.php?article=02Software%2F01PhotoPrint a go. Regretably this is no longer maintained but when I was printing from Linux it was (if a little buggy) the best colour managed printing solution available by a mile - achievable print quality was I thought outstanding, certainly better than native Epson drivers or Gutenprint. It's downloadable as a tarball,just how much work is required to get it up and running with current distributions I don't know.
Creating your own profiles ought to be the ultimate solution, but I struggled getting my borrowed spectrophotometer working under Linux. If you are using stock inks in the Epson you should be able to avoid this by buying paper from someone like Hahnemuhle who supply freely downloadable Epson 3880 profiles for their papers. Likewise if you buy third party inks from Lyson they will/would produce a custom free of charge profile for you. I seem to remember (but am willing to be corrected here) that you can't properly use the stock Epson paper profiles as they aren't true portable .icc profiles but instead specific to their own print drivers. If photoprint won't go and you are using standard Gutenprint I would suggest a first sanity check by trying to print and get good results on a standard sRGB jpeg before getting clever. Be prepared to use quite a bit of ink and paper getting it all working well (and obviously print small to start with :-) Rgds, Rob. -----Original Message----- From: Pascal Obry [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 03 April 2013 12:19 To: Pascal de Bruijn Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Darktable-users] Screen profile and image histogram... Hi Pascal, Looking for advice on this. I have done my first real print on my Epson 3880 today from Linux. The image looks ok on my calibrated screen. The softproofing looks fine too with the Epson Premium Luster photo paper .icc. As you described I have embedded the profile with: > tificc -v -o printer.icc -t 0 darktable_export.tiff raw_print.tiff But... The print is awful :( Printing the raw_print.tiff above I have a very visible pink/red cast. Printing darktable_export.tiff I have a very visible yellow/brown cast. Printing what done with EOG as you suggested. Taking the darktable_export.tiff and printing from Lightroom with the paper/printer profile I have good result. Maybe it is the gutenprint linux driver which is not that good? So maybe I need to create my own printer/paper profile? Do you have recommendation for this? Does a colormunki will do the trick? Is it usable on Linux? Or do you have a service on the Web which will create a profile for me? Thanks a lot in advance. -- Pascal Obry / Magny Les Hameaux (78) The best way to travel is by means of imagination http://v2p.fr.eu.org http://www.obry.net gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key F949BD3B ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. 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