[Digikam-users] icc profiles

[Gerhard Kulzer]

On Thursday 19 June 2008 wayne tedder wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Thank you everyone for your input I am overwhelmed by the helpfulness on
> this mailing list! :)
> 
> After reading up a bit and trying some things out, me and my GF have decided
> to go all the way and purchase, a wide gamut monitor and professional photo
> 11x14  printer.  I am however worried about printer drivers with these high
> end printers and I'm wondering if anyone has had any experience/luck with
> any particular printer under Linux.
> 
> Wayne

I use a Epson Stylus Photo 2100 for a couple of years now, the driver support is excellent under Linux. Some limited calibration is available, but no real profiling. That said, I never felt the need for profiling, the color quality was always excellent.

Gerhard

> 
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 2:47 AM, "Sveinn í Felli (IMAP)" <sveinki at nett.is>
> wrote:
> 
> > Ooops;
> >
> > Forgot the link on a similar subject in this mailing list,
> > some time ago. Might be useful too.
> >
> > http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=8083779&framed=y
> >
> > Also the Scribus DTP (http://www.scribus.net/) forums
> > contain many bits and pieces about color management.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Sveinn í Felli
> >
> > wayne tedder wrote:
> > > hello,
> > >
> > > My girlfriend is a semi professional photographer that has recently made
> > > the switch to digital.  After fumbling around with Adobe Lightroom she
> > > fell in love with the ease and transparency of Digikam, and since she
> > > does rely on me very much for technical support (and I use linux/KDE)
> > > she has decided to go with it.
> > >
> > > Anyway I have a dilema. (web info is very sparse)  I need to figure out
> > > ICC profiles for our current setup.
> > >
> > > She is using a Nikon D80 , I have several different monitors, and we are
> > > using an Epson c88 printer at home.  I haven't asked the print shop if
> > > they have an ICC profile to give us yet, but I would like to figure out
> > > our setup so that I can get assure her that the color corrections she is
> > > making are actually the colors that will be printed, and I can tell you
> > > that my test prints are very, very dark.
> > >
> > > Wayne
> > >
> > >
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