[matt.choules]

Hey everyone, i recently bought myself a nice new Canon ip5000 and a Pantone ColorVision package (to adjust my monitor to industry standard).
The skins tones look really natural on screen, the color spyder did its job and made a new profile for that, but the colours don't quite match on the prints... What profiling do i have to use for the printer? Any ideas?

Matt.

[uly7]

Hola and welcome to the real color madness.
Do you print in your printer, or in a local store?
If you print in your printer, then find the color profile of your printer --if it has one-- and use that. Now, if you print in a local store, then ask them what is their color profile and use that.
One question...what happen when you use Photoshop color profile?
Do your pictures came out right or not?
Uly7

[B_radical]

If you say you have made it so that your pc monitor is back to factory standard and i read this right, you will be set back to an RGB profile and all home personal printers print in CMYK as you probably know.
I have the ip4000 and what I did was adjust and print an image in the standard rgb1998 profile then compared the print to all of the inbuilt profiles Photoshop comes with till I found the closest one. From that I now assighn all my images to that profile to edit and print.
I still use an RGB image processing store for all my important prints for the deeper Red, Greens and Blues tho

Hope I answered you and wasnt completely off track

Cheers

[matt.choules]

Let me clear this up... I am using the Pantone Colorvision hardware (called the spyder) and software to make my monitor run at Pantone standard. Not just reseting it to factory default.

Is it better for me to work in RGB, then convert to CMYK just before printing?

When sending to print, what settings should i allow photoshop to use? For example, in the "Print Space" section of the print preview options, it asks for a colour profile. At the moment that is set to "sRGB IEC61966-2.1" and the "Intent" set as "Perceptual". Is this right?
Once past that obsticle, the printer settings come up, in the properties for that i set the settings obviously to High quality, the colour adjustment to Manual, All effects off, but there is option to use colour profiling again... This is where i am a little more confused.

Suggestions?

Matt.

[uly7]

Hola matt.choules
First of all I have to tell you that I'm not an expert or I'm not trying to be one. All I know is by trial and error, just like you.

Is it better for me to work in RGB, then convert to CMYK just before printing?

Depends what are you printing. For example; If you are printing pictures that you took with your digital camera, then yes, is better to work in RGB. If you are going to send some work to a print shop, --for example, businnes cards, a Magazine, etc, then CMYK.

Now in Photoshop, use the Adobe RGB 1998 or use the one that your Spyder give you. For the "Intent" use Perceptual.

When sending to print, what settings should i allow photoshop to use? For example, in the "Print Space" section of the print preview options

What do you mean by that?
Are you sending to print in Photoshop or from other program? If you are printing from Photoshop, then in the Print Dialog box, click in "show me more options/Color Management/ in source Space; Document;--it should show your Adobe RGB (1998) and in Print Space; Profile/Same As Source.

Once past that obsticle, the printer settings come up, in the properties for that i set the settings obviously to High quality, the colour adjustment to Manual, All effects off, but there is option to use colour profiling again...

If you change your color profile in Photoshop or your Spyder, you should be able to find it in your printer. the idea is that all your color profiles match.

This is my Color Settings, maybe not the best but, they work for me.



I hope this help you.
Please let me know
Good luck
Uly7

[matt.choules]

Right, i think i have some things figured out.

Let me ask anyone a question though; When sending a document to print, is it best to allow the color profile to be changed to a profile specific to the printer? i.e. not the working space profile?

Matt.

[matt.choules]

found this:

http://www.photokaechler.com/files/C...file_Guide.pdf

helped me alot!!!!

[matt.choules]

Right, now my last question is, i have noticed a warm (red or magenta) colour cast on my prints. I'm nearly completely happy with the prints, just wondering if its best to correct for this in photoshop before i send it to print, or if i should reduce the magenta in the printer's settings?
Not sure which would be best, so any suggestions gladly received!

Matt.