Basic Color Management
Basic Color Management
- Subject: Basic Color Management
- From: George Middleton <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 15:59:59 -0500
Dear CS list,
Newbie here- but long-time lurker, hoping to gain admittance to the
color management ballpark...and I was hoping for a little guidance on
what options I might pursue next in my attempts to obtain WYSIWYG out
of the printer.
I'm running Photoshop 7 in 9.2 and printing to an Epson Stylus 740
and so far, the prints are basically a lot darker and more saturated
than the image displayed on the monitor (Apple Cinema Display), and
viewed in View>Proof Setup.
Here's what I've done so far for color management:
A. Made a display profile using the Monitors cp; 2.2G, 65K and
activated it in the Monitors cp and in 'Display' in the 'Profiles for
Standard Devices' in the ColorSync cp.
B. Set AdobeRGB as the RGB default and Generic for the other defaults
in 'Default Profiles for Documents' the CS cp.
C. Made and saved 38 custom proof setups corresponding to every
available option with 4 of the 5 canned Epson paper profiles,
including all the different rendering intents, Black Point
Compensation on or off, Paper White on or off, and the Preserve Color
Numbers checkbox checked or unchecked.
D. In Photoshop's Edit menu>Color Settings.. chose ColorSync Workflow
and verified settings.
When printing I'm following this procedure: In Photoshop's File
menu>Print with Preview, chose AdobeRGB for Source Space: Document:
and the proper Epson media profile for Print Space: Profile:.
In the Epson dialog, I chose Custom, No Color Adjustment for Mode,
and the appropriate media type for Media.
Aside from the issue of whether the resulting print looks good or not
aesthetically, but judging solely on the basis of fidelity to the
image displayed in View>Proof Setup (and the much darker and more
saturated printed results), I should assume and act accordingly:
1. I need real hardware monitor calibration, not just software
characterization- as I've done; that the monitor profile is way off
and that is causing the lion's share of the discrepancy.
2. The canned Epson media profiles may be in the ballpark, but for
fine-tuning, I should custom profile the different media.
3. I believe another alternative- correct me if I'm wrong, is to use
color adjustment in the Epson driver and try to define settings which
will make the print look more like what's on the display...but as I
understand it, that's basically a kludge, and it's far better to do
the custom hardware profile route, and for that matter- also
linearize the printer.
Thank you for any suggestions you might have,
George
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