Calibrating

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Chris_C_Martino
Jun 10, 2004
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I an using the Eye One monitor calibrator on a Lacie 6 with an Epson 2200 printer. For printing just photographs, what are the correct color profiles and settings I should be using? What appears on my monitor is nowhere close to what is being printed. If we check ICM on the printer settings, with no color adjustment, the images come out green and black. Please help. Thanks.
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Steven_Brawer
Jun 10, 2004
I don’t know if this helps, but during one period, using an Epson 2000P, everything was coming out green no matter what I did. Unluckily, this occurred right after I callibrated my monitor and scanner, so I thought that somehow, mysteriously, the callibration had destroyed everything. It turns out the color print cartridge was defective – when I replaced the cartridge, everything came out OK. On the 2200, with individual cartridges, perhaps some of the cartridges are defective or perhaps the printer is broken.

As for settings, you should profile your monitor and, if your images are scanned, profile your scanner. The monitor profile is transparent – AFAICT, you never need to explicitly access it. On scanned images, you should do image->mode->assign profile, and assign the scanner profile. For basic, amateur color controls, that’s all there is to it.

My print callibration is definitely on the amateur side. To print with the 2000P, I simply print from an RGB image using the default printer settings, including default printer color controls. It appears Epson supplies ICC profiles for its printers (valid for its own ink and papers), which are loaded when the driver is loaded, and these work quite well for me. I doubt I could do better with an inexpensive package (I use Monaco ezcolor), so I never bothered to callibrate my printer. One day I’ll get a spectrophotometer and ……

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