Off-white canvas

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Tom BORG
Dec 9, 2003
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I’ve got problems getting good colour on Epson 750 from scanned slides … I am using monitor gamma and colour profiling to suit scanner and printer, and the most obvious fault to solve first is that the expected white background
i.e. canvas, border , is pale blue … which can only screw up highlights
….what on earth is going on?? any ideas please?

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R HUGHES
Dec 13, 2003
I had exactly the same problem crop up in the last week and just resolved it. I have no profiling software – I just calibrate my monitor with Adobe gamma, make a print and if it is not too far off from looking like my monitor image I then use the RGB settings in Adobe gamma to make my monitor look like the print. Crude, but it works for my needs at present. Anyway, when I last did this a few weeks ago I found the best match was using printer intent set to absolute colorimetric, but did not notice (until now) that the small area of pure white in my test print is in fact pale blue at this setting and in the relative, saturation and perceptual printer intent tests it is white. Evidently absolute maps white to pale blue with my set up. (Now I can print my Christmas cards with a white instead of a pale blue background, but I may have to add a little cyan with the printer software to match up the colored parts.)

RH

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