Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:54:04 +0900, Karen Nakamura <mail@gpsy.com> wrote: > > > >Well no, Print Preview should match what it prints out so it's doing > >what it "supposes" to do. Looks like the problem here is that the > >color gamut of the printer is way off, comparing to the Adobe RGB. > >Possibly you have a bad printer or bad set of ink? However, if the > >profile is a generic one from Epson, this that is what the printer > >is capable of :-( Under Photoshop, View->ProofSetUp, select Custom > >and load your printer ICC profile and save it. Now you can see a > >soft proof w/o going to Print Preview. You should also turn on Gamut > >Warning. > > The next step is to save a copy and work with the Soft Proof setting > to your printer's profile, and then tweak the color to match what you > want. A good way to do that is to duplicate your view and one set to > your normal RGB and one to the Soft Proof. Now if only someone writes > a PhotoShoop Action that says, "take from this View and make it look > like that view" and you would be all set. > > OK. I think I've been doing this all wrong then. > > This works: If I go to View->Proof Setup and then select my "Monitor > RGB", I get what I've been calling the desaturated version. I then > go to Hue/Saturation and pump up the saturation. Then when I go > Print->Preview, the Preview window matches the source image, and then > the printed image matches everything. > > I guess I had assumed that if I spydered the monitor, then Photoshop > would automatically take the monitor ICC into account. But I guess it > doesn't until you use: View->ProofSetup->Monitor RGB > That's odd. I always have my Proof Set-up pointing to the profile for the desired output device and paper, not the Monitor. In the Adobe Print Preview, I get colors that look fine. In the Epson drivers Print Preview, I get wrong, often Magenta, colors. This threw me, until I realized that Photoshop was doing all the color management. With the driver set to "No color adjustment" , the driver did not know what would get printed. The key (for me) was to realize that I needed to tell BOTH Photoshop AND the Epson printer driver everthing they both wanted to know about the image - and then set "No color Adjustment" in the printer driver so that Photoshop in in charge of color management. There seems to be limited communication between the two -- and each Printer's driver is a little different. -- Clive http://www.clive.moss.net