Re: Inkjet profiles?
Re: Inkjet profiles?
- Subject: Re: Inkjet profiles?
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 13:38:57 +0100
I know next to nothing about
ColorSync, and don't need a really accurate calibration. I'd just
like to improve the match between what appears onscreen and what my
printer spits out.
Your monitor can be set up with different gamma and white point configurations.
Your inkjet can be set up with different ink and paper configurations.
These are your color windows. Through these two pieces of hardware
and the color spaces they support, you connect not only the monitor
to the printer and the printer to the monitor, but the monitor and
printer to any other color reproducing process for which you have an
accurate ICC device profile.
If you don't set these two pieces of hardware up with the largest
color spaces they support, and keep the ICC device profiles for the
configurations that made these two color spaces the size and shape
they are, then the idea of virtual color networks collapses.
If you have an Apple monitor, it is self-calibrating and self-profiling.
If you have an HP printer, the higher models are likewise
self-calibrating and have both PostScript and ICC color space
specifications available through driver bundles on the HP site.
If you want your studio hardware color fingerprinted using on-site,
on the spot measurements, then you need a spectrophotometer and ICC
profiling software.
For entry level users this is not always easy. You can try looking at
the Eye-One software which is an all in one wizard guide.
ProfileMaker and other professional tools offer choices that are only
meaningful, when you know more about what you want.