Refill Ink for IP8700 Series Printer

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Hi Wim - I'm happy to share the profiles for comparative purposes but I strongly doubt that they'll be of any use for actual printing. I use TurboPrint which uses it's own colour mapping - different from (I would contend better than) that used by Canon. The profiles work fine in that environment, but I recently discovered for example that using a genuine Canon ICC profile as an Argyll preconditioning profile results in significant read failures with the Argyll chartread tool. I attribute this to the probability that the Canon and TurboPrint drivers map their colour generation in different ways and that the Canon profile was incompatible wiith the TurboPrint colour logic - & v.v. Replacing the Canon profile with a local TurboPrint generated profile for preconditioning completely resolved the issue. So while profiles generated using Argyll and TurboPrint work well for me, I doubt that they will provide optimal print results for a generic Canon setup.

If all you want to do is examine the CLI-651 and GI-63 profiles using a gamut viewing tool (gamutview for example) then I'm happy to upload them here. In fact I could zip up the full suite of Argyll files generated for each of the 2 inks - (ti1, ti2, ti3, ps, icc and the logfiles generated by my scripting wrapper) for you to look at. But it would need to be with the understanding that they are for comparison and not for actual use.

Let me know eh?

Cheers,

Richard (riclin)

EDIT: - I have queried the gurus at Zedo about my hypothesis regarding the apparent incompatibility of the Canon profiles with those prepared within the TurboPrint ecosystem and will report back here once I receive a reply. If on the other hand you happen to use TurboPrint or PrintFab, then my profiles should work perfectly.

Hi Richard,

I did use Printfab in the past while it was still under development to linearize some custom inksets for my Epson R3000. Anyway, I would like to have a look at the greyscale linearity of your printer/ink/combination...because the ICC profiles I find online from paper suppliers don't look too good.

Thanks,
W.