[Tool] ChromIQ – a macOS and Windows GUI for ArgyllCMS printer profiling (v4.0.0)

[itsab1989]

@itsab1989 Thank you very much for all your hard work. I am very very impressed. The program is very professional and slick.
Unfortunately I do not have a spectrophotometer since my i1Pro1 died few months back, to put it through it's paces. I am hoping to get another one soon.
@pharmacist a big thumbs up to you too for keeping at it in all earnest. Wish you all the best.
This newest development on the CR-30 is very interesting. I was wondering if there is any way to get strip mode working, however slow it may be? I am toying with the idea of mounting it on an XY table to automate it. In which case it can be slowww too and work. Experimenting with several profiles and workflows becomes very time consuming by hand. In theory an XY table should make it quite productive.

Thanks for the kind words! I have asked Claude to send it „rapidfire“ comands to measure what it could do at best. Conclusion: 3 measurements per second. You don’t want to do strip reading with this speed because there is a high chance the device does not land on the patch you want to measure even once.
I think that if you have the capability to make such an XY table work with the device you could probably really make this quite productive. You can fork ChromIQ and work with what is already in. I have made it so you can trigger the device with the spacebar as well because I thought this might reduce shake that might be introduced when pressing the devices button. So with such a table you would not even need a real strip reading mode. You „just“ (it is still easier said than done - I know) have to make the timing right. Move to patch 1, measure, patch 2, measure and so on

 

[itsab1989]

Hi all,

This is Arno, back from being kicked out because I was tagged as spam, likely because I send two replies shortly after each other. "It" seemingly even blocked my IP address, since I could not even send a message to an admin. Eventually, I managed to send something, somewhere, asking to be unblocked, but no avail. I'm now on a different IP address and created another account, using another email (sigh...).

Anyway, I really appreciate all the help and pleasant interactions here. Following what Sebastian recommended, I managed to use my scanner as a profiling device within ChromIQ, but since I don't have an ICC profile for my scanner, I simply assigned Adobe1998 and got a profile, which made the grey more neutral, but the principal R, G, B, C, M and Y were off. This was no surprise considering the lack of a calibration profile for my printer. Nonetheless, it seems it can be made to work using a profiled scanner, which can be done cheaply using a target, for example from Coloraid.de.

Anyway, since I do a lot of B&W, I followed the advice of Pharmacist, and started looking for a second hand i1Pro. After a bit of dabbling with AI, it seemed that the i1Pro series is much better than the "consumer" level devices as for example from Calibrate. In the end, I found a used i1Pro2 rev E for a good price with 18,000 seconds of usage, while AI "told me" that Xrite warrants their internal tungsten bulbs(?) for 100,000 seconds or so(?). So I purchased the thing, only to find the next day an add for a new, unused i1Pro2 rev E, for only a few bucks more. So now I have two, lol. I saw the video above that the CR30 is also under scrutiny now and communicating with ChromIQ, so this will be brilliant as an affordable solution. Seeing video's of the i1Pro in use, I do think that scanning will be significantly faster, so I have no regrets on the i1Pro purchases.

I'm now still on travels (hence the different IP...), and have two i1Pro's waiting for me at home and will report back when I managed to play with them (if I don't get banned again...). Meanwhile, playing around with ChromIQ it deeply impressed me for user-friendliness, and possibilities. Job extremely well done! Congrats and many thanks!

I was wondering though whether it would be better to use the original Xrite's i1Profiling software with the i1Pro2, and I do have an older version of the software which still recognizes the i1Pro2, but this will no longer be available with the next MacOS update apparently. I suppose that ChromIQ was written for a reason: Is it better than Xrite's i1Profiling software?

Thanks for all the inputs, even during my absence (...). I think I'm well on my way to create accurate profiles in-house now.

Arno

I am looking forward to hear from you when you made your first profiles with it. Thanks for the kind words also. This means a lot because my number one goal was to make it very user friendly while being versatile at the same time.
And Knut often pushed back on me to implement some more advanced features. I think we managed to keep a pretty good balance.
Still finding bugs to fix and introducing new ones in the process but I am working on inprovements