Problems printing accurate Datacolor targets with TP
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 2:48 pm
I have been trying to profile my Canon ip4850 for non-Canon ink & paper but have run into problems. My system is a dual boot using Win xp and Linux Mint 13 (Maya) 64 bit with XFCE desktop and TurboPrint 64bit 2.25.
Using a Datacolor Spyder3print SR I can get superb colour corrected prints in XP, but when I follow the method outlined in the TP manual - create and print using a new profile without colour data - the Turboprinted targets don't come close to the windows ones, especially in the darker tones (noticably lighter). If I profile these targets and import the resulting data into Turboprint this (uncorrectable) deviation is confirmed because the dark tones in my prints come out muddy and compressed.
I have tried everything I can think of to correct this problem in the TurbPrint settings and nothing seems to help, but it's worth noting that although the empty TP paper profile I used has all the colour adjustment tabs correctly grayed out this is not true in Gimp or Image Viewer, - even when I select the 'empty' profile in those applications the colour space and rendering are active and can be altered?
Briefly then I have spent way to much time/ink/paper on this problem and am now stuck, so any help would be much appreciated.
Using a Datacolor Spyder3print SR I can get superb colour corrected prints in XP, but when I follow the method outlined in the TP manual - create and print using a new profile without colour data - the Turboprinted targets don't come close to the windows ones, especially in the darker tones (noticably lighter). If I profile these targets and import the resulting data into Turboprint this (uncorrectable) deviation is confirmed because the dark tones in my prints come out muddy and compressed.
I have tried everything I can think of to correct this problem in the TurbPrint settings and nothing seems to help, but it's worth noting that although the empty TP paper profile I used has all the colour adjustment tabs correctly grayed out this is not true in Gimp or Image Viewer, - even when I select the 'empty' profile in those applications the colour space and rendering are active and can be altered?
Briefly then I have spent way to much time/ink/paper on this problem and am now stuck, so any help would be much appreciated.