Digital BW, The Print

Hi Duane,
After reading the paper gray strip, the X-880 spits out the CMY values for each region in a format that depends on your choice.  I used the REPORT format and with a little sh script, redirected it into a text file (after scrubbing the data a bit using sed).  As a test, I printed a 21 step gray strip using CS4 and a matt paper profile that Paul Roark has so kindly provided in his site for MIS Ebony inks, on Canon MP101 matte paper.  I could visually see that the 90%-100% region was not separated well, and the X-880 readings confirmed that.  I just finished this exercise, now I need to correct the profile for the deviations using the 880 output and measure the corrected output to check that all is well.  Anyway, I am getting good use out of the $25 purchase, so am happy!
I can send the 880 an "SV" command from the computer to make it return its ID string.  I am trying to get the control commands documentation from X-rite (part number 880-506); if anybody has it, it would be a great help if I could glean its contents.  Eventually, when time permits, I would like to read out the contents of the EPROM, and may be reverse engineer it enough to make it do other useful things...
I will try to upload a pdf file with a plot of the readings (mean of three trials, with the three channels plotted separately) to the files section, with a filename: "C88+ calibration curve.pdf"

Regards,
Unny
--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "dlruckus" <dlruckus@...> wrote:
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> While you're working at that why don't you simply use the X-rite Toolcrib program with X-key or any comm program with file capture to place your readings into an ordinary text file and Argyl can use that data as input via indirection on the command line. Any functional instrument can be used in that manner.
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> I didn't know that Argyl could do B&W profiles or take density readings as d'log values. Wouldn't you need to convert the data to Lab first?
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> Regards,
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "unnytg" <erissery@> wrote:
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> To create the linearization transforms, there is also a program called ArgyllCMS that runs under BSD/Linux which can control some similar X-rite instruments and I am hoping to dig into its source code and modify that to use it for controlling and reading the x-880.
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