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Colour Profiles ???


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Hi all.

I've just purchased a new Printer (Canon i455). My first print from this, colour wise, was nothing like the image displayed on screen.

Am I right in thinking that this is the monitors colour profile that is out, rather than anything that can be corrected in the printer?

How exactly do I go about ensuring what is printed will reflect what is displayed on screen?

I know there are tools like the "Pantone Colorvision Spyder" that can achieve this, but that's too expensive for a one off calibration. The Colour settings in PS have different profiles for RGB and CMYK, but there don't appear to be many options for adjusting these to any degree.

Using basic PS tools like Sat/Hue and Bri/Contrast etc, I can get the image on screen to look like the printed image, so it must be possible.

Any advice or links to info on monitor calibration would be gratefully appreciated.

Sark
 
Appologies for the late response to your replies. Have been unable to get online for the last few days.

JoeD. Yes it is CMYK, although I'm told it converts RGB to CMYk better than doing the conversion yourself prior to printing. In fact, I've read it will convert CMYK back to RGB just so it can do the conversion itself...wierd!!!!

Rick. Will do a search as suggested.

Thanks for the replies.

Sark
 
Sark,

It may seem weird that ink jet printers use RGB data to print, but they all do. If you are printing from an ink jet or creating for screen always just work in RGB color mode. Work in CMYK if your work is being sent out to a service bureau for professional printing or you are using a PostScript RIP.
 
Welles

If all my work is going to be RGB, and sent to the printer as RGB, is there any need to worry about the CMYK colour profile in "Colour management" .

Cheers

Sark
 
Sark said:
Welles

If all my work is going to be RGB, and sent to the printer as RGB, is there any need to worry about the CMYK colour profile in "Colour management" .

Cheers

Sark
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No. Just set it to Generic CMYK.
 
Sark, Photoshop has Adobe Gamma, a little utility that is in your control panel to help you calibrate the screen. Better than nothing, but still far from what the Spyder, or the EyeOne can do... (a spectrophotometer is better than our eyes, due to the fact that our eyes compensate all the time)
visit http://www.computer-darkroom.com for more info!
 
sPECtre

I think this is more geared to getting the display to appear natural rather than for "display to printer" calibration. I might be wrong.

I'm already getting close to printing colours that are the same as what is on the screen, by using profiles that came with the printer, but it could still be better.

I think paper type plays a part , so I'm going to purchase the types I intend on using to do some tests.

Will take a look at the link.

Thanks for posting.

Sark
 
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