Color profiles

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vidman
Jan 16, 2004
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I am using a Epson Stylus C84 printer in win xp, and am confused about all the printing color profiles..Currently using AdobeRGB1998, yet have a choice of "color match RGB", "CIERGB","Wide Gamut RGB" and many others, also under automatic it is set to EE243-1. I AM CONFUSED, WHAT DO I USE, AND WHAT DO THESE MEAN? I am aware in order to get a What you see on the monitor, you must calibrate your monitor, and then select the proper profiles. Also, there is a discussion about what is better SRGB or AdobeRGB? One is supposed to give you more "scale". Any illumination about these topics would be appreciated.
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brent_bertram
Jan 16, 2004
Vidman,
The are several good sites I will refer you to. One is Ian Lyons’ site, <http://www.computer-darkroom.com/> where he has several printing tutorials using Epson drivers . Another is Norman Koren’s site , <http://www.normankoren.com/> which has a massive amount of information on the subject.

Using Elements in a color managed workflow, you should have your Edit > color settings set to either "limited color management" ( the sRGB colorspace ), or "full color management" ( AdobeRGB colorspace ) if your purpose is printing images.

The profiles that you mention in your post are color space, not printing profiles. Unless you have downloaded a media specific profile for your ink/paper combination, your best choice in the Print space profile dropdown box is "Printer Color Management ".

< http://www.computer-darkroom.com/ps7_print/ps7_print_mac_2.h tm> is an Ian Lyons tutorial which deals with this subject, but he has others as well which touch on it. You would do well to read the related tutorials to "get a feel " for the difference between colorspace, profiles, media profiles, monitor profiles, etc, all of which are listed in the Output space dropdown box for printing, but very few of which are appropriate choices. The box simply lists all the ICC profiles on your computer, and most of them are not for printing.

Read Ian’s stuff, try it out, and if you’re still confused ( and I’m still not confused <G> ) , we can all hash at this some more.

🙂

Brent

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