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Printing Colour Management

on: January 1, 2022 at 2:38 pm

Sorry if this is a bit long.

I am in the habit of making my own profiles, for display and for print.

For printing profile I measure targets with my GretagMacbeth i1 Rev. A, which I bought new about 18 years ago.

I just found out I had some leftovers of Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta and wanted to try it in my Canon Pro-1000.

So I just made a profile for it with my i1 and ArgyllCMS. I have an M1 Mac Mini andX-Rite will not support my admittedly old i1 with i1Profiler.

Out of curiosity, before doing any prints, I compared my profile with the one provided by Hahnemühle. They are  different, as expected, but I did not expect the  gamut difference to be so much.

My profile in white wireframe, Hahnemühle’s profile in colour:

So, I have a few questions:

1. Is this to be expected?
2. Which profile should I use?
3. If this is not normal, would it mean my spectrophotometer is now too old? Do they have a stated life expectancy?
4. If the time has come to replace it, the current verision is i1pro 3 Publish, quite expensive, although in line with prices evolutions since 2004. Would I lose much by going with the Calibrite Colorchecker i1 Studio?

Thanks in advance!

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