Didn't find anything specifically on a workflow with Argyll so I was hoping a few people out there might be able to offer some general advice on getting started. I have an i1XTreme but I find that the profiles the Eye One Match software generates to be a bit disappointing when it comes to highlights on certain papers. It seems to do an okay job with mat based papers but when you throw something like Epson Exhibition Fiber or Crane Museo Silver Rag at it I find that it loses some detail in the highlights. One example... if you download the test images from Bill Atkinson:
http://homepage.mac.com/billatkinson/FileSharing2.html... on the test image there is a yellow flower. Profiles generated with Eye One Match (regardless of how many patches there are... I've used the highest sample target from the i1Xtreme package as well as the 5202 patch target from Bill) lose a lot of detail in those yellow highlights compared to a profile generated with Monaco Profiler (this BTW is on a Canon IPF6100 (and in a few weeks an IPF8300). After seeing that I was prepared to pickup a copy of Monaco Profiler or X-Rite's Profile Maker however a little birdy has hinted that there will be a new profiling product available soon which could potentially be much better. In the mean time however I figured I'd try Argyll and I wanted to run the following by a few folks who might have some experience with the tool to see if I'm on the right track. I already have the 5202 patch target from Bill Atkinson printed out and it's had plenty of time to dry so since I already have it... I figured I'd use that. I need to generate a ti3 file so first...
txt2ti3 Convert Gretag/Logo/X-Rite or other format RGB or CMYK test chart results into Argyll .ti3 CGATS format.
If I wanted to generate my own target directly from Argyll I could use the printtarg command to generate a TIFF target chart.
chartread - This is the business section... use the Eye One Pro to scan in the cart and create a ti3 file
colprof - Create an ICC profile from the .ti3 test data.
I think that's it aside from the specific arguments I have to pass to each command. Does anyone have any hints or tips? I'd also be interested in any feedback anyone has if they're done any comparisons between Eye One Match and Argyll generated profiles.
Cheers, Joe