ChromIQ - an ArgyllCMS GUI for printer profiling
Since this is somewhat related to photography I wanted to share a project I have been working on.
For quite some time I tried to improve my workflow so that the colors on my monitor are better represented in the prints I sometimes make. I bought a used X-Rite i1Studio and tried to create ICC profiles for my printer with it but I have never really been happy with the results. So I did some research and found out about ArgyllCMS - a very capable collection of programms for colormanagement by Grame Gill. Just one caveat: they are command line only and I never reall got the hang of it. Last year someone (Knut Larsson) created a nice script that helped me to create my first printer ICC profiles with Argyll and I liked the results better than what the X-Rite software gave me. But I thought that to make this attractive for more people it needs a real GUI. Incidentially at that time I watched a video about how easy vibe coding with Claude Code would be. Maybe it was sponsored content but I was interested and decided to realize my idea of an Argyll GUI. It was not as easy for me as described in the video but after some iterations I am pretty proud about how far I have gotten. It might still have some bugs here and there and room for optimizations but if this is of interest for someone please feel free to try it.
Feedback greatly apprechiated!
Best regards
Sebastian