Better Test Pages for Color Printers?

AigariusDebian asks: "I bought a new color laser printer (Lexmark C510), but I am not sure if my driver configuration gets all the best images out of it. I would also like to have some way to brag about it to other laser printer wielding geeks. That means that I'd need to make some kind of repeatable and measurable testing of the printers quality. Are there any good Postscript test files that will allow a non-expert to do a full test of their color laser printer? I am thinking about both resolution, dithering and color matching testing."

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Try mine...

[digitect]

I wrote this one: ColorCard.pdf (1.4Mb).

It tests all the characteristics of a printer that I cared about:

• color accuracy -- C,M,Y,K,CM,CY,MY,CMY,CMYK in density increments of 10% from 10-100%
• SWOP color accuracy -- Same as CMYK except in 25% increments
• grayscale accuracy -- Increments of 5%
• resolution -- CMYK tests of lines down to 0.25pt at 45 degree angles

Of course, you'll need a reference card by Kodak, etc. to test against, but I've found this is the simplest way short of developing a whole complex spot color sample group of colors closer to the edges of gamut.