I’ll let the real experts get into detail but my two pieces of advice would be to make sure your monitor is properly calibrated and if you are only printing to the S900 work in RGB only.
Bob
Derek,
What tips are you looking for?
I’m looking for advice, i guess, on a decent icc profile. My color management is garbage and enlisting help from hp is like begging change from a bum. What I’m seeing on screen looks great, and when I compare these images to the original, unfettered by computer language, the resemblance is completely satisfactory. The on screen dispal, OSD?, seems fine. However, by the time my S900 is thru, I might as well should use a zerox machine. I’m looking at the sight suggested to me, got it in my favorite places. But I’m wondering about a better calibration method than the one offered in classroom in a book. Done that, still garbage. Why the RGB mode only? I thought CMYK and global process colors were what would be best but it’s easy to misunderstand when your a lap dog. Give me a shout. Thanks again.
Derek,
I suggest that your have two choices.
1) Print using the "Printer Color Management" as output space profile as covered by Ian Lyons in his tutorial.
2) Purchase a profiling package ( like Monaco EZcolor ) and create your own ICC media profiles.
I originally used option 1 ( above ) and got decent results, but since have switched to my own profiles, and the results are definitely better. You should be getting decent results using "Printer Color Management", however.
RGB mode happens to be appropriate for printer to inkjets. The drivers are designed to accept the RGB data and convert to the CMYK inks. Sending a CMYK image to an inkjet ( unless it’s specifically designed to accept CMYK data ) is not going to give good results.
🙂
Brent
Read it. Got it. Learned alot. As always, thanx for the help. I’m still open to suggestions though if anyone else has commentary. Since my last, I calibrated the moniter again and read an online manual for my brand. I read the sugested website, and the responses here. I’m making progress and we all know this: No matter how much you know, we are always making progress. I spend a great deal of time in 7. I’m officially hooked. Take care.
enlisting help from hp is like begging change from a bum
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Sorry you don’t get it Bert. It’s futile and furthermore it is the reversal of the natural order. The help when you are spending money, not once they have it. And for the record, alms giving is fantastic, dealing with Hp is beyond frustrating. Took me two weeks just to get info I didn’t ask for an a web address that was superficial. I’m stupid. I thought the people who made a product knew about it. What do I know.
I thought the people who made a product knew about it. What do I know.
Someone there knows about it, you just don’t get to talk to them.
Sorry you don’t get it Bert
I was just confused because you were talking about a Canon printer, and suddenly were bashing HP. I guess you were talking about the computer? You hadn’t mentioned what computer you have. Did I miss something? I went back and re-read it….
Bert
For the record, when you want graphic design run on a computer, by mac or athelon processesors. Two and a half years ago, when Hp and pentium and circuit city bent me over and slipped me the lime green weinie, I did not know this. I wanted what a consumer with a mind wants, the most affordable yet adequate machine. Very few places actually sell mac and Hp replaces their absence with garbage. For everyday programming, Packard can run word and musicmatch simultaneously. Try running a hundred meg picture file with say 7 layers and doing something as sinister as breathing while operating the machine. The depression era stock market didn’t crash so hard. As for the S900 series Canon inkjet, works great. It carries six seperate cartridges, which makes it affordable and practical. I only replaced the empty colors, unlike the epson and most others, who combine three or more inks in the same cartridge. Once your out of one, it’s time to spend 50 instead of twelve. And with the same max dpi and a double wide print head that allows a borderless page at about 3 minutes, how can you lose. Take advance warning though, for those people who think I might know something, I do not do grayscale printing at all, never have. Siply put, for my friends out there, the best of my knowledge is as follows: By Mac. Need a multipurpose PC instead? By Dell. Still, buy the athelon chip, even a 1.6 runs over the 2.0 pentium because of the cycles per second, ask a pro. I use Canon, 6 cartridges, in my opinion you have to go laser to beat it, but I’ve never owned the laser. Take care, I hope my perspective, earned the hard way, is at least considered Bert. I know you want the best for your money to man.
For the record, … I know you want the best for your money to man
What?
I thought it was "Forgetting Foucault".
Margaret McDowell "Forgetting Foucault" 9/13/03 11:24am </cgi-bin/webx?14/0>
Once your out of one, it’s time to spend 50 instead of twelve.
Well, far be it from me to defend Epson, but the five-ink cartridge for my 780 costs $18. Just to set the record straight.
And 5×12 = sixty bucks to stock the Canon. Hmmm. I dunno how many prints you get for $60, but that sorta sounds like the Epson 2200, which is a great printer from what I’ve heard, but it has seven cartridges at $11 each…that’s a lotta bucks for 25 or 30 pictures.
Bert
PS – I tried to read Eco’s book "Foucault’s Pendulum" a few years ago. Gave up after a couple hundred pages.
