color managing Kodak 1400
color managing Kodak 1400
- Subject: color managing Kodak 1400
- From: Igor Asselbergs <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 16:50:40 +0100
Recently I purchased a Kodak 1400 dye-sub printer. It took some
trouble getting it to run on my Mac, but in the end I succeeded.
Image quality is excellent. I made a custom profile and it works
quite well.
But last week it suddenly refused to make any more prints on my Mac.
I didn't manage to bring the darn thing back to printing again on the
Mac. And Kodak wasn't any help either....
So I'm stuck to printing from a PC. Worse: the color management is
all messed up.
I set the printer properties to always choose my custom profile as
default. Then I converted my image from AdobeRGB to custom printer
profile and hit the print button, without adjusting anything, like
I've done on the Mac. The result was appaling. Picture way too dark
and light colors far off the mark. I waisted quite a few prints to
experiment with different settings in the driver. But nothing seemed
to have any influence on the resulting colors. And as the printer
driver color settings are hardly documented, I'm really in the dark
here.
Then I had an idea: instead of converting to custom printer profile,
I converted to sRGB. This resulted in nearly identical colors as a
Mac print.
I don't get it. Does Kodak force me to convert my pics to sRGB before
printing? That would make me quite unhappy...
Am I doing something wrong? Or did Kodak make a crappy driver?
Igor Asselbergs
Colorjinn, Amsterdam
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