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I have had problems - now solved!
Before Christmas my laptop broke - so I went to buy a new one.
An top Asus one - in the top dollar range and to that I changed the SSD for a much bigger one and throw out the HDD and replaced that one with another SSD instead.
However - when buying such "better" laptops you can not avoid getting on of those gaming-cards - In mine a Nvidia Geforce GTX ("hot-hot-super GT-xfast-xfast... something
). I have no use of it so I closed that in device-manager and uses the Intel graphical processor instead. I do no video work. By that I also have less heat and noise from the Nvidia fan. So by now I thought I was rid of that problem. I was looking for good I7-processor etc for speed.
Now for the problem.
Same days ago X-Rite prompted me to update the Colormunki software. (I didn't think they did updates) Of cause I was interested and installed it. I also did a new reinstall of the latest ArgyllCMS.
When trying out the Argyll-soft using your excellent .bat-command-files - (thanks for those-fellows!) - I got terrible results!!! Totally out of use.
First I suspected that it was the new X-rite-software that was interfering - so I totally removed it with the help of "Revo uninstall" so it was really clean. Tested Argyll again - but the same catastrophe.
I tested many many more things - but noticed a line in the Argyll manual that there had been problems earlier with some Nvidia drivers.
To make a long story not still more longer I managed to clean out all Nvidia drivers and suspect hangons (long story). Registry entries and hidden not obvious Nvidia-progs.
Now my Nvidia is just a dead part of my laptop.
AND....ArgyllCMS is back in the game again. So is also the new X-rite software
That gaming-card with a huge number of progs, registry settings and hang-ons was to blame.
Also as a side effect - it feels as if the laptop runs a little bit more on steroids.
Did for fun some tests.
1/Xrite soft
2/One test with the bat-file 480 patches
3/One test with the bat-file 720 patches
My subjective opinion is that ALL are pretty usable - X-rite (7+ points) and Argyll 720-patches (8 points) nearly in par - to my own surprise Argyll 480 patches was great. I give that one 9+ points.
Conclusion: Your Nvidia Geforce GTX might disturb your Argyll profiling. (perhaps an interference of having both Nvidia soft together with the the latest X-rite drivers.)
(Inf: printer used Epson 3880 - with Cone inks and Sihl "Satin Baryta" A2-size and Epson driver.)
Left is to solve Printfab printing cut roll-paper 290g - whatever I do the print head hits the paper.
Is there a god Satin paper on roll that is easy to decurl. Sihl is very stif! When printing and ink hits the print-surface - the surface expands/swell and gives a new sort of curl - and that is in the printer. Changing platen gap is a hit and miss game. When profiling for Prinfab I can optimize ink usage, that helps a bit. I also ordered a "De-Curler" - let's see if that helps.
Before Christmas my laptop broke - so I went to buy a new one.
An top Asus one - in the top dollar range and to that I changed the SSD for a much bigger one and throw out the HDD and replaced that one with another SSD instead.
However - when buying such "better" laptops you can not avoid getting on of those gaming-cards - In mine a Nvidia Geforce GTX ("hot-hot-super GT-xfast-xfast... something
). I have no use of it so I closed that in device-manager and uses the Intel graphical processor instead. I do no video work. By that I also have less heat and noise from the Nvidia fan. So by now I thought I was rid of that problem. I was looking for good I7-processor etc for speed.Now for the problem.
Same days ago X-Rite prompted me to update the Colormunki software. (I didn't think they did updates
) Of cause I was interested and installed it. I also did a new reinstall of the latest ArgyllCMS.When trying out the Argyll-soft using your excellent .bat-command-files - (thanks for those-fellows!) - I got terrible results!!! Totally out of use.
First I suspected that it was the new X-rite-software that was interfering - so I totally removed it with the help of "Revo uninstall" so it was really clean. Tested Argyll again - but the same catastrophe.
I tested many many more things - but noticed a line in the Argyll manual that there had been problems earlier with some Nvidia drivers.
To make a long story not still more longer I managed to clean out all Nvidia drivers and suspect hangons (long story). Registry entries and hidden not obvious Nvidia-progs.
Now my Nvidia is just a dead part of my laptop.
AND....ArgyllCMS is back in the game again. So is also the new X-rite software
That gaming-card with a huge number of progs, registry settings and hang-ons was to blame.
Also as a side effect - it feels as if the laptop runs a little bit more on steroids.
Did for fun some tests.
1/Xrite soft
2/One test with the bat-file 480 patches
3/One test with the bat-file 720 patches
My subjective opinion is that ALL are pretty usable - X-rite (7+ points) and Argyll 720-patches (8 points) nearly in par - to my own surprise Argyll 480 patches was great. I give that one 9+ points.
Conclusion: Your Nvidia Geforce GTX might disturb your Argyll profiling. (perhaps an interference of having both Nvidia soft together with the the latest X-rite drivers.)
(Inf: printer used Epson 3880 - with Cone inks and Sihl "Satin Baryta" A2-size and Epson driver.)
Left is to solve Printfab printing cut roll-paper 290g - whatever I do the print head hits the paper.
Is there a god Satin paper on roll that is easy to decurl. Sihl is very stif! When printing and ink hits the print-surface - the surface expands/swell and gives a new sort of curl - and that is in the printer. Changing platen gap is a hit and miss game. When profiling for Prinfab I can optimize ink usage, that helps a bit. I also ordered a "De-Curler" - let's see if that helps.
