MS-Office apps and ICM with an HP 8550N
MS-Office apps and ICM with an HP 8550N
- Subject: MS-Office apps and ICM with an HP 8550N
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 23:23:20 -0400
At the risk of sounding crazy, I am going to ask this question: has anyone
seen of know of any way to make any of the Microsoft Office applications, on
Windows 2k or XP, care for ICC Output profiles?
This may have been covered previously on the List and I am sorry to bring it
back if that's the case. But I just spent the day calibrating/profiling an
HP 8550N color laser printer and, in the end, even though we got decent
color out of the printer, through Photoshop, it looked like all this will
not serve much purpose because my client is strictly in an office type of
environment and everyone is running Word, Excel and PowerPoint to assemble
and print documents.
Apart from going to an iQueue-type of solution to manage the PS stream on
the way out to the printer, as an alternative to what appears like a lack of
color management from within the MS-Office apps, is there else that that
can be done in this type of environment to manage color on the way out to
the printer? I inspected every popup, drop-downs, preferences screens and
menus I could find in these apps but, nothing, zilch, nada, it seems. Only
in the Printer Preferences I found a "Properties" settings where one can
associate a Custom ICC profile with a printer. But that does not seem to do
anything to the output color. I tried but it looks like its completely
ignored by the applications. On the positive side, I found out that MS-Word
does manage the display of images and graphics through the System Display
profile. But when it comes to printing, there is no further conversion
ocuring as the "color does not match the screen!". Namely, the data seems to
be just handed over to the printer driver as is.
I did not find any resources at the printer driver level to do any furhter
color processing. So I guess that, in this environment, with this particular
printer, unless someone is printing from Adobe apps (like I was doing in my
testing today) or unles someone has access to a color server like iQueue,
setup to carry ICC color conversion on-the-fly, can one say that printing
from MS-Office apps is doomed (or limited) as far managing color is
concerned ?
BTW, we did the color balance procedure from the printer LCD panel and found
that this improved the accuracy of the resultant profile about 10 fold! The
User Guide also talked about some "Color Match" application but I could not
find that.
Any help is appreciated, of course. Thank's for listening to this instalment
of my "tales of the trenches".
Roger Breton
Laval, Canada
email@hidden
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