Hello Nick,
Some of this depends upon the RIP technology you are using to drive these printers. In a perfect world I'd want to do the following.
1. Set the primary ink restrictions of each printer to match. While time consuming this is a fairly easy to implement once you have completed all these steps for 1 printer.
2. Create a printer calibration based on a known good print condition. I'm a pretty big fan of G7. I find this favorable over built in RIP linearization when matching between devices is the end goal.
3. Build an ICC profile based upon #1 and #2 above.
4. If the output of that ICC profile meets your expectations, then perform steps #1 and #2 above on the second printer, and apply the ICC profile built in step #3 above.
5. As David Hunter suggested, use software to evaluate the results achieved in this small test group.
6. Depending how #5 goes, decided if you can continue the process on each printer. As you go, the printers may place themselves in buckets of go/no go.
7. The no go printers may need maintenance or just may need to be grouped in such a way (again, as David suggested) so that multiple profiles can be utilized.
Off the top of my head, that's how I'd attack this.
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James Raffel
Color Management Consultant & CEO
G7 Expert
262-820-1131
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-04-2017 01:18 PM
From: Nicholas Reed-Kutz
Subject: Multiples of the same model printer
Hello,
I wanted to get others opinions on profiling multiple of the same model printer. I have groups of the same printers and was wondering what others do for profiling. Do you give them all their own curves and icc profiles? or is it better to have one icc profile for all of them and linearize each printer individually? They are setup to run the same media on each group of printers.
Thanks,
Nick
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Nicholas Reed-Kutz
Color Technologist
Sign-Zone, Inc.
Anoka MN
(612) 224-4766
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