I'm using mostly Hahnemühle papers and some from the Epson collection, and thought my profiles would be useful for other people. Especially if one does not want to go through the burden of printing and measuring targets. All the printers I'd used for profiling had been linearized with Epson ColorBase before printing the targets. So these profiles should work well for your linearized printer too. The profiles should also work with other Epson printers using the same print head as the one for which I've created a profile (eg profiles made for the 4800 should work on the 7800 and 9800). But your mileage may wary.

These profiles were made by taking two or three measurements from each paper (in case of Photo Rag, William Turner and Museum Etching profiles for the 4800 three different target sheets were used), averaging them, and correcting salient measurement errors. The targets were Bill Atkinson's great 1728 patch RGB files, measured using an Eye-One spectrophotometer.

Printer settings you should use for these profiles are contained in the profile names.

Naming convention is the following:

Where

1. Is the printer type. In this example the Epson Stylus Pro 4800.
2. Is the paper type and driver media setting. In this example Hahnemühle Photo Rag (HPR), and the driver should be set to Epson Velvet Fine Art (VFA). If the paper type is in the driver then only the paper type goes here (e.g. for most of the Epson papers).
3. Is the driver DPI setting. All the profiles were made with the highest DPI and unidirectional printing settings in the driver, but you can use them with lower resolution and bidirectional printing.
4. Denotes other driver settings used. Std means everything is at its default value.

So the profile in this example needs the following driver settings: Velvet Fine Art Paper, 2880dpi (or 1440 if you wish to save on ink), High speed disabled (or enabled if you have time pressure).

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