Hi Martin I think its right that Epson simply don't allow any access for linearisation of non listed papers. I dont think they ever have within the driver. As you know even the Mac version of my old favourite ColorBurst X-Proof does / did not include lin. options ( but could, on papers I tested) be made to work successfully using an existing "paper setting"). Is the Velvet behaving so differently to the "fine art" options that are present, Smooth Fine Art and Textured Fine Art? Colorburst Xproof Win does allow full linearisation and ink limiting etc. on all the x900 inks, good luck, though, its hard to get right. It's rumoured that even GMG are experimenting with reverting to RGB profiles on 900 machines, to allow Epson's "internal" sausage machine to deal with the CMYKOG (+lite) ink separations. It seems that the only option, practically, is to find he best existing paper setting and build on that. Maybe use Colorport as you can inklimit the targets should the need arise ( even RGB ones, it seems ) and that might, in some cases, be neccessarry. Given your interesting comments on i1 Profiler, many of which I agree with, have you tried the Mirage profile builder add on? I understand it uses the Spectroproofer and can even print to a non spectroproofer equipped machine, then measure on a machine which has the spectro. I wonder if anyone's tried it? Be interesting to know who is behind that profiling engine. Please copy me off list Regards, Neil Barstow :: Apple Solutions Expert :: Colour Management Specialist www.colourmanagement.net/ On Monday, 23 July 2012, Martin Orpen wrote:
Reading Epson's marketing materials about how amazing their Velvet Fine Art Paper is (best D-Max ever etc), I find it really surprising that they don't offer any way to linearize their printers for this specific paper type.
Both the Linearization tools and the SpectroProofer software for the x900 series printers are missing a Velvet Fine Art setting.
The next best options for linearization are Smooth Fine Art and Textured Fine Art, but I cannot find any documentation regarding overrides to the paper and/or print settings for these paper types that would make them a better match to Velvet Fine Art.
Anybody got any workarounds, or does nobody else bother with linearization for this stock (and all of the Hahnemühle papers that also recommend the Velvet Fine Art driver settings)?