Which colorspace should be used for printing to an inkjet? Thus far, I’ve converted to sRGB for printing to my Canon i960, but I’ve been wondering if aRGB would be a better choice.
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That was my original question. Would Adobe RGB (aRGB) be a better choice for printing to an inkjet. Is this what you use? My thought was that any 6+ cartridge printer should be able to handle the full Adobe RGB color gamut, but maybe I’m just plain wrong here.
Not the full, but does better than sRGB. Make sure you have AdobeRGB as your workspace while editing (or some other wider gamut space). It does no good to work in sRGB then convert to AdobeRGB just to print.
I agree with Charles and G. Start with no less than Adobe RGB for its wide gamut (or a wider gamut if available) and that should yield top results for your inkjet.
Use OEM inks and top quality OEM or third-party papers and their profiles.
While the above replies are fine for someone at Michael’s level of grasp of color management (and perhaps for his particular model of printer, with which I am not all that familiar), for the sake of clarity and for those reading this thread before it disappears in 6 or 12 months, I’d like to point out that Adobe RGB is not the ideal space for top quality inkjet prints.
As Jeff Schewe likes to put it, ProPhoto RGB is the only space real men use. 🙂
Seriously, with high quality digital capture, whether from top cameras or film scans, one definitely gets better results working in ProPhoto RGB. I’ve used nothing else for years, ever since Bruce Fraser pointed me in the right direction.
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