ColorTune

[Lukas Engqvist]

Struggling to get back on top of ColorTune. We have had it since the begining, and there has allways been a promise that the next version will solve our problems…Â*Only now I find myself with a version that seems to work until I try to generate a Profile at wich point I get the message that it required a licence.
So back to digging up backups, and I find my CT 4.2, no licene problems, but it is refusing to read measure data…Â*what was the trick, such a long time since I used it?

Rant:
(the problem I have is that my Sherpa24 is infact an EPSON 7500, wich was not a problem untill I need to do some posters on another paper quality) Wh should it be so difficult to stay compatible? I am not allowed to linearise the paper and now not able to make an ICC, this really is a sour situation.

[Colorblind]

Hi Lukas, over the last 18 months or so I've been using ColorTune Profile 4.2 to build (and edit) profiles from measurement files along with Sherpa CMS to print and measures targets to end up getting such measurement files. When we decided to stop using Agfa proofing paper (because of it's high cost) last year, I had to buid a new profile for our new proofing paper. These 2 softwares do what they should but there are a few glitches. 1st: to profile your Epson, use the target named something like "allink250max", it has about 4000 patches. Using the other similar but not 250% ink limit target will result in a measurement file that ColorTune won't read (been there, done that: wasted hours). 2nd: when printing the target, limit your page size to 11x17 or Sherpa CMS may not recognize your spectro readings. 3rd: once you saved your .txt measurement file from Sherpa CMS, you have to drag it to one of the script bundled with ColorTune Profile (don't exactly remember the name but there is one script for profiles and one for measurement files). Then you'll be able to create a new profile with ColorTune Profile. Good luck!

[Lukas Engqvist]

Thnx, I did get the licencing issue sorted, so I'm w8ing to get my key.
But I'll check for the scripts.