Re: accurate Epson printing?
Re: accurate Epson printing?
- Subject: Re: accurate Epson printing?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 16:50:48 EST
In a message dated 12/8/00 12:57:22 PM, email@hidden writes:
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I'm sure this is a very basic question...but help! I have Photoshop
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5.0, an Epson 636 scanner, a new G4, and an Epson 1520 color printer,
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equipped with the latest Epson rip. I am using ColorSync 3.0
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throughout. Have all my profiles in place. Everything goes
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great...scans great...looks great on the screen...prints out DARK
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overall. Have done what I can with Epson tech support. I have left
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the color settings alone in Photoshop (no profiles). Have had pretty
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good luck until I got the new G4. Help! I am printing using Pagemaker
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6.5 because I am doing photo collages. All the settings in there are
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set for ColorSync. Any suggestions?
This would require an entire book ot cover; but the very abbreviated version
would be: calibrate your monitor with a hardware device (the newest,
affordable, high quality choice for that is PhotoCal and the Monitor Spyer
for under $200) then calibrate your printer (If you get ProfilerRGB with the
package above the whole business is $300 from www.colorcal.com). Then set up
Photoshop to a reasonable RGB workingspace (AdobeRGB is preferred) and when
you open your scan on screen, you can believe the adjustments you make, and
when you print the corrected file through the custom prnter profile, the
output will be a very close match to the screen. This is about as low cost as
you can get and still get quality results, and it should work excellently
with the equipment you have.
I just corrected and printed a photo of a Cardinal (what an out of gamut
bird!) and while the inkjet struggled a bit getting the saturation in the
feathers, the screen to printer match, with the monitor and printer profiles
in place, was very good. The Photoshop 6 proofing feature told me how close I
could expect that output device to come to those reds, too; again based on
the accuracy of the monitor and printer profiles. With Photoshop 6 everything
is coming to depend on profile accuracy.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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