Color calibration for monitor and printer – anyone done it?

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Scott Smith
Aug 22, 2005
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I have an Epson 2200 color printer, and I’ve had a difficult time getting consistent colors out of it (through Photoshop 7.0.1 or any other software). Over the last two years, I’ve tried many combinations of settings, etc. Once again, I’m getting greenish prints and B/W prints with a distinct blue-green-ish hue. In addition, we’ve got two monitors, and my images look significantly different on each.

I’m finally at the point where I’m ready to break down and buy a hardware solution (like GretagMacbeth?) if it means I can just calibrate my monitor and printer and quit screwing around with guesswork (by "calibrate", I mean create color profiles for each – the factory profiles aren’t good enough, apparently).

Has anyone gone down this road before? I’d be interested to hear about your experiences and any solutions or advice you can offer.

Thanks in advance.

Min Smith
http://www.minsmithphotography.com
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Aug 22, 2005
Scott Smith wrote:
I have an Epson 2200 color printer, and I’ve had a difficult time getting consistent colors out of it (through Photoshop 7.0.1 or any other software). Over the last two years, I’ve tried many combinations of settings, etc. Once again, I’m getting greenish prints and B/W prints with a distinct blue-green-ish hue. In addition, we’ve got two monitors, and my images look significantly different on each.

I’m finally at the point where I’m ready to break down and buy a hardware solution (like GretagMacbeth?) if it means I can just calibrate my monitor and printer and quit screwing around with guesswork (by "calibrate", I mean create color profiles for each – the factory profiles aren’t good enough, apparently).

Has anyone gone down this road before? I’d be interested to hear about your experiences and any solutions or advice you can offer.

Thanks in advance.

Min Smith
http://www.minsmithphotography.com

The answer is yes you should calibrate/profile the monitor first, althogh there are limits if it’s an old CRT. If you don’t want to spend too much get a Eye-One Display 2 for the monitor and a remote profile for the printer.
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Hecate
Aug 22, 2005
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 20:05:28 GMT, "Scott Smith" wrote:

I have an Epson 2200 color printer, and I’ve had a difficult time getting consistent colors out of it (through Photoshop 7.0.1 or any other software). Over the last two years, I’ve tried many combinations of settings, etc. Once again, I’m getting greenish prints and B/W prints with a distinct blue-green-ish hue. In addition, we’ve got two monitors, and my images look significantly different on each.

I’m finally at the point where I’m ready to break down and buy a hardware solution (like GretagMacbeth?) if it means I can just calibrate my monitor and printer and quit screwing around with guesswork (by "calibrate", I mean create color profiles for each – the factory profiles aren’t good enough, apparently).

Has anyone gone down this road before? I’d be interested to hear about your experiences and any solutions or advice you can offer.

Thanks in advance.

Min Smith
http://www.minsmithphotography.com
The most important thing to calibrate is the monitor. Do that first (using the GM EyeOne) and then use the colour management features of Photoshop to get a sensible workflow. Then see what the print is like. You may not need to profile the printer as the Epson is generally quite good with the canned profile, as long as you’re using a colour managed workflow.

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