I am trying to build a couple of custom profiles for my printer, a Canon 9000. I have access to an X-Rite I-1 Pro Spectophotometer, and Profilemaker 5 which I decided to use to try to improve on the preset Canon ones. With the heavy photo paper I like to use, the shadows tend to drop off quite quickly. So, I have been making tweeks on the file in Photoshop, or when I print through the printer driver, to get the print I want, but it would be nice to have my first print come out closer to the way I want it.
Now, I am a very experienced printer, both digitally and analogue, and do realize that quality prints don't come easy, which is why I'm trying to do this.
I have printed and analyzed the patches using the I-1, and Profilemaker, and applied them through the Photoshop plug-in, but my results are still not as good as I'd like. I've been fiddling around with this off and on for a few weeks, but I am still not getting what I want.
I do not have a rip station, I rip from my Mac to the printer.
Has anyone out there used these tools to make profiles, and if so, what advice can you give me?
Keith
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