RE: Color Calibration Adjustments
RE: Color Calibration Adjustments
- Subject: RE: Color Calibration Adjustments
- From: Roger <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:46:57 -0500
William,
> We have an OKI C5200ne LED printer.
OK. Nothing fancy, a plain office printer.
> I learned that it's not quite straightforward to print from Windows
> XP: but the instructions said you could print directly to a specific
> printer by loading the drivers in both OS's.
The User Guide states, on page 119, that the XP printer driver and Color
Swatch Utility only support RGB. So don't bother sending CMYK documents
directly to this device. That's just asking for trouble. According to page
120, you can print using the ICC profiles supplied by Oki or use Oki Color
Matching. But you're basically out of luck because there is no way to
disable color management in this printer at all. So that you could hope for
is the supplied ICC profile and the Manual Color method.
If I were you, I'd stick to sending sRGB documents only.
Under the Color tab of the print settings, select Manual Color, then
Natural, under Color Setting. Then, in the "monitor" drop-down menu, select
sRGB, which, if we are to believe the documentation at the bottom of page
122, would result in relative colorimetric rendering print. Pretty much what
you'd hope for.
> I would be happy to meet with a color consultant, but I don't know of
> any in my area.
>
> I was kind of hoping I could print off identical reference charts in
> OS X and XP and mail them to a consultant who could run a color scan
> on them.
The User Guide did not mention how to print from the Mac so I could not
comment on the Mac side of printing to the 5200.
My suggestion, William, is to not hire a consultant. With this kind of
printer, either from OSX or XP, there isn't much anyone is going to be able
do over and beyond the limited color processing capabilities of the driver.
I'd suggest you'd stick to sRGB and experiment with various substrates until
you find something you like.
Best / Roger Breton
> William Carr
> SW Michigan
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