How to use an unlicensed i1Pro spectro with i1Profiler and ArgyllCMS

[crenedecotret]

Something else that works great with my Eye-One Pro (sold as EF-1000) are the now-free Bable utilities. I use the PatchTool V7 a lot!

They confused the heck out of me.. How do you use them?

 

[ConradH]

They confused the heck out of me.. How do you use them?

Well, the CT&A confuses the heck out of me as well. PatchTool has various features I don't use, but it's a great reader for manually collecting data. You need one of the X-Rite drivers installed on the machine and I don't think it's terribly fussy about which version. Then just go to the Tools menu and select the Patch Reader. It will prompt you to do a cal first, then read and graph after that.

 

[mavtop]

hi @pharmacist

i'm approccing to use this method, maybe i got a v3.1.1 of iprofiler per Mac OSX that would work with my i1pro (i have 2 of them), so i would like to know if you have some target patches profile optimized for the i1pro on a single A4 sheet, you talk about a TC9.18 but i don't know where to download it.

I'm looking for a profle for B&W and Color printing, if then you have 2 of them optimized one for Color and one for B&W i could also make 2 profiles for each paper always on A4 sheets.

For some paper i have few o no informations, so i will have to test them for different Media types, if you have also a target patches for 10x15cm so i can use and A4 for 4 different MediaType, i don't ask for a super profile with only 120/150 patches but it is just to understand which Media Type is better (wider gamut or black or gradients), when i choose the best media type then i will use an A4 sheet to make the real profile.

I have built your ruler (with my old 3D printer, about 8 hours) but i suppose not the latest version, but i suspect the differences are minimal (now i have my 3D printer failing to print, so i will have to fix it before print the latest version).

I will try this new method on Christams Holidays (when i will have some free time), i have about 15-20 types of paper to profile, for some of them i already have ICC profiles created with previous target patches using only ArgyllCMS so i would like to test, if with this method using iProfiler and ArgyllCMS i can get the same results or better more easily and with more feedbacks from the app while scanning patches versus the ArgyllCMS beep only.

In the future i could get the Chinese spectro, ONLY if it is superior than i1pro i have, to make profiles (wider gamut with same patches count or better gradients or anything better).

Any hints are appreciated.

Thanks for your work.

 

[pharmacist]

Hi Mavtop,

Here is the patch set that is optimized for my 3D-printed slider/ruler for the i1Pro1 and using the famous TC9.18 patch set. It is scrambled and uses 2 sheets of A4 to print (can be easily printed on Letter too, but trimming off the white area around the color patches if needed).

The targets are the same used in the vintage Eye-One Match 3 software that uses exactly the same target in the advanced printer profiling option.

Put the pxwf file in the following directory (Windows):

 

[mavtop]

Thanks @pharmacist for the files. now an easier question, is not possibile to make a profile with only one sheet of A4 ?

I ask this because i see in the TIF files, enough white space left over/under and left/right of the 17 rows and 25 columns, maybe the problem is the ruler length ?

If you remember i added some length to your original ruler to use all the A4 sheet horizontally, so i can use all the A4 space.

When you have time and if you want, Can you try to make a target profile, using just a single sheet A4 in full up/down and left/right.