Hi James! On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 2:59 PM James Moe <ji...@sohnen-moe.com> wrote:
> On 09/22/2016 09:13 AM, Pat David wrote: > > Did you also generate a profile for your printer? > > > How do I do that? > I'd search the online manual, except... There is no search function! > Thus rendering the manual somewhat useless for finding specific topics. > http://imgur.com/a/mnhLn The problem as I understand it (there are far smarter folks than I for color management stuff here) is that we are talking mainly about a problem of degrees. Your uncalibrated monitor may or may not show you colors that are representative of what they should be for a given colorspace. So far it may _seem_ ok to you, but the best you can hope for w/o calibrating or profiling is that it looks close enough for you. Apparently the "close enough" has drifted recently for any number of reasons. Pascal has a still relevant tutorial on display color profiling in linux: https://encrypted.pcode.nl/blog/2013/11/24/display-color-profiling-on-linux/ If you have the hardware, you can use displaycal to do the calibration and profiling: http://displaycal.net/ Basically, this will get you a profile for your monitor and hardware to show you the correct colors. At that stage you can be reasonably comfortable that what you see on your calibrated hardware should look the same on someone elses calibrated hardware (or at least really close). The next problem is that you will need to print a reference target on your printer, with your inks, and then use that reference print to generate a profile for your printer. This will allow you to use the profile for soft-proofing your images prior to printing so that you can see what they should look like when printed. This is beyond the scope of a quick email, but I'm hoping some folks on the list might have some better references to post for you to follow... > I have some standard ICC profiles: > CMYK: > un-/coated > web un-/coated > US web un-/coated > US sheetfed un-/coated > > Would any of those be an appropriate default? > Maybe? I doubt they would be any better than any other profile that isn't generated from your printer and created by you. pat _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list