CREATE(1)

🌸 CREATE(1) — the printer calibration glow-up page 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to Create (yes the man page is titled CREATE(1) but the actual command vibe is printcal, iykyk) — this is a User Commands page and it's literally all about making printer calibration happen. let's go 💅

✨ NAME ✨

Create — create printer calibration. that's it, that's the name, no cap 🎀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Create printer calibration. simple as that, fr fr. this is the main character of the whole page 💖

⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

printcal [-options] [prevcal] inoutfile

👑 OPTIONS 👑

one bullet per flag, bestie, no skipping, we're thorough in this house:

• -v verbosity — verbose mode. she talks. a lot. 🗣️
• -p — plot graphs. pretty pictures ✨
• -i — initial calibration: set targets, create .cal 🌱
• -r — re-calibrate against previous .cal and create a new .cal 🔁
• -e — verify against previous .cal ✅
• -I — create imitation target from .ti3 and null calibration 🪞
• -d — go through the motions but don't write any files. all vibes, zero commitment 🙈
• -s smoothing — extra curve smoothing (default 1.0) 🧚
• -A manufacturer — set the manufacturer description string 🏭
• -M model — set the model description string 📦
• -D description — set the profile Description string 📝
• -C copyright — set the copyright string ©️
• -x# percent — set initial maximum device % target (override auto) 🔥
• -m# percent — set initial dev target to % of auto maximum 🎯
• -n# deltaE — set initial white minimum deltaE target ⚪
• -t# percent — set initial 50% transfer curve percentage target 📈
• -a — create an Adobe Photoshop .AMP file as well as a .cal 🎨

🌈 the # channel thing (important, don't skip, this is the lore)

the # in those -x#, -m#, -n#, -t# flags picks which channel you're talking about:

• c, r, 0 — first channel
• m, g, 1 — second channel
• y, b, 2 — third channel
• k, 3 — fourth channel, etc.

so like. cyan/red/zero = channel one, magenta/green/one = channel two, yellow/blue/two = channel three, black/three = channel four and beyond 💀✨

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• prevcal — base name of the previous .cal file, for recal or verify. your little reference point, your ex-calibration if you will 😭
• inoutname — base name of the input .ti3 file, and the output .cal file. in goes ti3, out comes cal, iconic behavior 🦋

heads up bestie: -i, -r, -e and -I are like, four different modes of the same energy, so pick your lane. and -d means nothing gets written — she's just practicing her walk 💅

okay that's the whole page!! this was printcal, from September 2014, and yeah the footer literally just says printcal and September 2014 so that's your version and date, slay 💖 thanks for reading bestie, go calibrate something gorgeous ✨🎀🌈