Canon i950 & Adobe Photoshop 7 Colour Profile

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Miles
Jun 29, 2003
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Hi,

I am trying to print scanned images (from an HP Scanjet 5500c) to a Canon i950 printer via Photoshop. I am having trouble understanding the various colour profiles.

The scanner does not use a colour profile (well, it uses sRGB I think).

Photoshop has several settings in the Print dialogue: either "Same as source", "Printer colour management", "BJ Colour printer profile 2000". Now
which one of these should I use? If the printer driver is automatically correcting the colour (the colour adjustment is set to auto) then should I use "same as source" in Photoshop. Or would I be better off setting the printer colour adjustment to "manual" and using the Photoshop colour profile – and if so, which colour profile?

Thanks,

Miles
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Jerry Schwartz
Jun 29, 2003
There’s a missing piece: your monitor has to be calibrated, or else have the right profile, or you’ll never properly see what you get.

This can really make your head hurt. The simplest thing to do is to calibrate everything to meet in sRGB, a standardized color space. Then you can use ICM (host color management) for them all. It’s hard to get the manufacturers to speak in one language, so I don’t know for sure if your scanner software automatically (or using a supplied profile) maps to sRGB, but it sounds as though it does. If you turn on ICM in the printer driver, then the scanner and printer will match.

Theoretically, if you scan a picture and print it without retouching you should get back what you put in. The hitch is that your monitor might show something different, unless it has been properly calibrated. Your monitor manufacturer might supply a good profile.

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"Miles" wrote in message
Hi,

I am trying to print scanned images (from an HP Scanjet 5500c) to a Canon i950 printer via Photoshop. I am having trouble understanding the various colour profiles.

The scanner does not use a colour profile (well, it uses sRGB I think).
Photoshop has several settings in the Print dialogue: either "Same as source", "Printer colour management", "BJ Colour printer profile 2000".
Now
which one of these should I use? If the printer driver is automatically correcting the colour (the colour adjustment is set to auto) then should I use "same as source" in Photoshop. Or would I be better off setting the printer colour adjustment to "manual" and using the Photoshop colour profile – and if so, which colour profile?

Thanks,

Miles

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Auspics
Jun 30, 2003
I used to have a HP scanjet 4c which in it’s day was very expensive and considered to be as good as a flatbed got. I never ever scanned a photo and printed it out on any Canon or Epson printer and had it look like the original without in some way or another altering the colour balance. My suggestion is to use a photo from an image file, print it on your i950 and then balance (calibrate) the monitor until it looks the same. Then scan a photo and print it. If it looks different, change the defaults of the scanner until you get what you want.
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"Jerry Schwartz" wrote in message
There’s a missing piece: your monitor has to be calibrated, or else have
the
right profile, or you’ll never properly see what you get.
This can really make your head hurt. The simplest thing to do is to calibrate everything to meet in sRGB, a standardized color space. Then you can use ICM (host color management) for them all. It’s hard to get the manufacturers to speak in one language, so I don’t know for sure if your scanner software automatically (or using a supplied profile) maps to sRGB, but it sounds as though it does. If you turn on ICM in the printer driver, then the scanner and printer will match.

Theoretically, if you scan a picture and print it without retouching you should get back what you put in. The hitch is that your monitor might show something different, unless it has been properly calibrated. Your monitor manufacturer might supply a good profile.

—

Jerry Schwartz
FidoNet 1:142/928
http://www.writebynight.com

"Miles" wrote in message
Hi,

I am trying to print scanned images (from an HP Scanjet 5500c) to a
Canon
i950 printer via Photoshop. I am having trouble understanding the
various
colour profiles.

The scanner does not use a colour profile (well, it uses sRGB I think).
Photoshop has several settings in the Print dialogue: either "Same as source", "Printer colour management", "BJ Colour printer profile 2000".
Now
which one of these should I use? If the printer driver is automatically correcting the colour (the colour adjustment is set to auto) then should
I
use "same as source" in Photoshop. Or would I be better off setting the printer colour adjustment to "manual" and using the Photoshop colour profile – and if so, which colour profile?

Thanks,

Miles

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