Post by Ivan TsybaAs I wrote earlier<http://www.freelists.org/post/argyllcms/Adobe-Color-Printer-Utility-scaling-target-image>,
Adobe
Color Printer Utility is not so good for target printing because of
unwanted image scaling. This can be bypassed by manual scaling to 104% in
printer job setting.
Today I discover another problem (on Windows): ACPU can't print targets
bigger than A4: on A3 paper I get A3 target image cropped to A4 size.
Can somebody recommend another widely available program (even command line)
to print targets without any color management on Windows?
For OS-X Maverick there seems to be a route that is described here by
Mark McCormick with Colorsync involved:
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3584510
For Windows I use Qimage Ultimate. Photoline is usable too I think for,
Windows at least. There are more applications that will not bend like
Adobe did.
There were some questions unanswered in the above linked thread too. In
Qimage at least the color management settings do the following:
Qimage has 3 main choices on color management:
1/ CM-Off = Qimage doesn't convert the file, sends the plain RGB data to
the driver so with the color space profile stripped from the file.
In that mode it will also not assign a colorspace to an untagged file,
for example a target file for profile creation. And Windows will not
assign a profile either, it leaves that task to applications.
2/ Let printer manage color = Qimage does the above but the color space
profile isn't stripped from the file so the printer driver CM can do
something sensible with the file.
3/ Qimage CM on, Qimage does the conversion and sends the converted data
to the printer driver, expecting that the last's CM is set to Let
application do CM, so in fact with the driver's CM off..
In both 2 and 3 Qimage could assign a colorspace to an untagged file
based on EXIF data, camera model as an educated guess or without any
hint available it will assign a color space, the default sRGB or a
preferred choice of the user, say AdobeRGB or nothing if the user
doesn't like guesswork.
The printer driver has usually two choices: let driver do CM and the
other one let application do CM. With application CM set the driver will
do no conversion at all and expects that the application does the work.
That is also the setting you will use to transfer targets through with
Qimage on CM off. When the driver does CM it will expect files with
certain colorspaces, my Z3200 can be set on AdobeRGB or sRGB, the PS
driver has more spaces. The conversion happens to LUTs in the driver so
not with ICC profiles.
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Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst
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January 2014, 600+ inkjet media white spectral plots.