Evaluating Argyll Printer Profiles

[Woodenfish]

I have been on quite a journey for the last month trying to create my own ICC profiles for my printers. I had a Spyder instrument, but just could not get a decent profile with it. So, I managed to find a new ColorMunki on eBay. I have been using Argyll to calibrate my monitors for several years, and I have been so happy with the results that I thought I would learn how to use it for creating my printer profiles. I've done a ton of reading to learn how to use it, and what settings to use in order to achieve the profiles that I am looking for. I am now getting profiles that I am very happy with. I have downloaded a test image from Keith Cooper's site and have been using that to evaluate the results. Both the test images and my prints look great with my Argyll profiles.

I only have one unresolved curiosity. Argyll has a function (profcheck) for testing the profile. I can use the function, but I don't know how to interpret the results. Following is a graph showing the results of a recently generated profile for Moab Lasal Lustre on a Canon Pro-2000 printer, using 836patches:



Profcheck tells me that the test results shows errors (CIE94): max. = 0.841293, avg. = 0.251627, RMS = 0.288972

Are these results good, bad, or average? Can I tell if the largest errors relate to a particular color? If so, can I improve the profile by using additional target patches from that color range?

I would be happy to read more information on this topic, but I have not been able to find much - please feel free to point me in that direction if you know of something.

Thanks!!

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Keith
https://keithmombourquette.myportfolio.com

 

[enduser]

Any help in this post from "Printer Knowledge.com"

i1Studio Argyll printer ICC profiles problem

Hi, made a few profiles with i1Studio, Argyll and the Colormunki photo. I have 2 problems: With i1Studio colours and gradient is fine, but the prints (also in proof) come out too pale...? With Argyll black is OK, but the dark tones are cut, the curve is very strange!? this is a profile...

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[enduser]

Or this:

A basic guide (see post #1) to setting up ARGYLL CMS profiling on your computer

Updated 18 May 2015 - text edited and updated batch file added. Note:The version of Argyll on the ArgyllCMS website has been updated. I think it may be time to start a thread on setting up "Argyll CMS profiling" on our computers, for all those who have tried but given up or failed for one...

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[Woodenfish]

Thank you Enduser, that 2nd one looks very promising.