TurboPrint & PrintFab

Hi, I am still interested in reading any insights you may related to my last couple posts.

Cheers,
Robert

I had a thought today: Could the remaining differences in the prints be due to differences between the .icc profile I got from the paper manufacturer and the custom turboprint profile that I loaded? Here is my thinking on the subject: A few times in the past, when I've printed from gimp image editor...

Hi, I received the updated color profiles today, thank you. I did some test prints, and I can see that the combination of having the ink limit at 300 and the custom profile does improve the quality of the output and provides the best result I've seen so far. Overall, I think this result is satisfact...

Thank you for the response. I have printed the new color charts with ink limit 300 and put them in the mail just now.

- Robert

I hate to bug you again, but could I get a quick yes/no confirmation to my previous post?

Hi zedonet, Thank you for the clarification. If I understand correctly, I would likely be able to achieve a better quality result (with more gamut and darker blacks) if I order and print out, and mail in new color charts, but this time I set the ink limit to 300 for both (last time, I printed the co...

Hello again, I received the calibrated profiles that were produced from the pieces of paper that I mailed in. I did a few more test prints with the calibrated profile. For the Moab Entrada Rag Bright, the color chart I sent in had an ink limit of 250. When printing with this ink limit of 250, the tu...

Hi zedonet, thank you for this suggestion! I created a new paper profile with ink limit set to 300, and this has almost completely resolved the issue I was having with all dark colors being indistinguishable. I am able to distinguish down to #6/#8 on the black squares in the bottom of my test print,...

Thank you for the clarification. Yes, I set up a profile for the paper with these settings: https://blog.robertelder.org/2021-08-06-printer-tests/paper.png On the 'Color Spaces' tab I also imported the .icc profile for that same paper type that I got from Moab. Yes, I've read a lot about issues peop...

Hi zedonet, Thank you for your reply. I think that my settings for the RGB Color Space are correct, but I am a bit uncertain about the typical 'workflow' of how high color accuracy printing works. In my case, I have a graphic designer and an illustrator who are making some art work for me. The art w...

Here's another interesting FYI: Here is what I see in kern.log when I plug in the USB for the printer on my main computer when the udev override is NOT active: Aug 7 17:36:03 robert-ThinkPad-P15v-Gen-1 kernel: [39235.527519] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 19 using xhci_hcd Aug 7 17:36:04 ...

Hi, I am printing on an Epson SureColor P900 and my prints come out a bit too dark. Most of the colours seem to come out ok, but all of the very dark shades seem to come out way too dark. It almost seems like there is a fixed offset added to how black everything is. See photos below. I am printing o...

Hi, just an FYI: I have an Epson P900 and after installing the trial version for turboprint 2.51-1 I was affected by the same issue of not being able to see the printer, but only when connecting via USB. The solution of doing: sudo touch /etc/udev/rules.d/55-ippusbxd.rules also worked to solve my pr...