That would make sense- guess I was not thinking it through- Thanks so much for your help !!

I am getting ready to use the long awaited version 7 of PP, and have my printed out test pattern and IT8 target ready to scan (on my canon 8800F). I use Vuescan pro and wanted to know what some of the COLOR tab settings should be set at prior to doing the scan. The PP Help file covers most of the settings, but wanted to know where some of the other settings should be (what I set it at):
Color Balance (white balance), Scanner Color Space (ICC profile),Scanner ICC profile (I set it to read the scanner.icc file as I calibrated the scanner using the IT8 target), Printer color space (Adobe RGB), Output Color Space (Adobe RGB), Monitor Color Space (Icc Profile- directed to my monitor profile generated with a pantone huey). Would like to hear your opinions,

Thanks,

Scott

Hi-  I would not give up on the i950 yet, or getting a print head for one. The i950 and i960 use the same print head- I find both printers on craiglist (here in Tucson,AZ) every now and then and recently purchase an i950 for $30 and it had not printed one full set of inks since it was purchased. Of course, they can be found on ebay, but are pricier. Be sure to print a test print if you purchase one locally. Have you tried cleaning/flushing the heads with a good cleaner to remove the yellow contamination ? There is some pretty good stuff that I've purchased off ebay that comes from Portugal- sometimes it will do the job. I like the canon BCI-6x iype printers- have been refilling the original Canon ink cartridges with Precision Colors inks and have been very happy so far as their ink formula seems to be pretty consistent. I've have a bit of a hobby with printers and have an i9900, i860, i950, i960 and IP5000, along with an MPF 50..

I had another feature to add to PP if it is not that difficult- It would be nice to have more zoom in or out levels of an image that you are editing the profile on so you could match the size of the print you are comparing to..  Thanks,  Scott

I've had very good luck with my Canon 8800F. It is supported by win 7 64bit. It is also supported by Vuescan software as well.

Terry-  I was able to download it from the link this evening and changed the file name and it seems to work; hopefully I will be able to figure out how to use it to modify several files at once-  thanks for your help !!

I just tried the Queens link and it comes up as being broken.....

I tried the link in the gui tools, but that was "broken", as well as several others. I will try the sno.phy.... link on Monday as well. I have several HDR images made via Photomatix that I would like to tag with the same info and it sounds like exiftools would do the trick..

Hi- I have been unable to Find Exiftools- is there anyway to get a copy of it still?? Thanks,

Thanks Fred- "You be da man"

Mike- I would like to put my 2 cents in for my wish list for Pp features:

1) A "drop down" way to select the photo that you are going to use as a "Printer Test File" when editing a profile- currently I believe the only way to change that is to rename the file to be "Printer Test File".

2) The ability to edit a profile that was not made with PP..

Thanks for the input Fred- I have never had a need to do that, but know know how to do it (I think). I may ask my friend to have him send me the image and I will use qimage and generate a file and he can compare the differences- my guess is that he would need to have both printed out, and I don't know if we would want to do that, but I will check and report back... Two questions- what type of file does it save to when you tell it to print to a file, and where would be the default directory that it would tore the file- I tried doing a test of "print to file" and could not find where the file when. Maybe I should finish my coffee before I do any more..

Hi again- I've been using the Sharpen at 11 since it's about midway and seems to work pretty well. Most of my printing lately is done on 8.5"x11" Ilford Galerie paper I purchase at Sam's Club. I've profiled it using PP with my Canon I960, and the results are pretty good. Right now I'm editing and printing photos from a High School Swim meet my son is on- first time I've shot at a swim meet. I give kids 8.5"x11" pictures of themselves of the ones that turn out good. I save the canon i9900 for the few 13"x19" prints I make....

Back to GF- Today at my workplaceone of the guys asked one of our co-workers if he could take his image and use GF on it to create an image that could be printed decently at 16"x20". He used Costco and was uploading an 8M jpeg to be printed at 16x20, and was getting a warning saying that the image did not have enough resolution for 16x20. So that may be a use for GF- will have to see if it works for him....

  I appreciate all of the comments thus far on the subject. As I said, use Qimage for almost all of my printing- I believe it it less expensive than GF as well, plus Mike has responded to any of my tech support questions very quickly. Plus the update process is great. I had downloaded GF and tried it on a picture that I had taken with a Sony Mavica years ago- where it stored images on a 1.44MB floppy (those were the days), and printed it out on 5x7 paper. I printed the same image out using Qimage (hybrid interpolation and sharpen=11). I thought that the Qimage  picture looked slightly better, ignoring the GF watermarks in the demo version. Hopefully I will be able to contribute every now and then and don't always ask questions.

I am a Qimage Studio (& Profile Prism!) user, and use Qimage for 98% of my printing. A few people I work with use a program called Genuine Fractals when printing large (13"x19") prints. I am thinking that Qimage provides a similar function on larger images, and was wondering what any of your experinces may have been if you tried the program. I would be printing 13"x19" glossy (sometimes matte) prints using my good old canon i9900. Most of the images would be made from ~ 10megapixel raw images from my canon xti. I assume most of the folks on the forum are Qimage coverts, but would appreciate any comments.

Thanks,