I would really appreciate some help. I am
trying to profile my Epson 2000P printer using Monaco EZcolor 1.6. To do
this I must print a (Monaco-supplied) profiling image on the 2000P, tape a
(Monaco-supplied) target just below the printed image, and scan the whole
business on a flatbed scanner, which, in my case, is an Epson 1240U using the
Epson Twain 5 driver. There is a *strict* requirement to turn off all
color management options in the Epson Twain 5 driver. Therein lies my
problem: how do I turn off color management in the Epson driver?
Specifically, my confusion, in all its gory details, is:
What is the difference between: 1) the highlight
and shadow sliders in the Image Controls dialog box, and 2) the output
settings in the Tone Correction dialog box?
Tone Correction Dialog Box.
According to the help menus, the output settings
"allow you to fix points on the tone curve so that they will not be affected by
changes you make to surrounding points." The defaults are, Highlight: 245,
Midtone: 128, and Shadow: 8. I think I understand these settings and
believe that, for a neutral, color-uncorrected scan, I would set the highlights
to 255 and the shadows to 0.
Image Controls Dialog Box.
With regard to the Image Controls dialog box I am
completely befuddled.
For the Highlight slider the help menu states,
"This slider controls the highlight level. It can be set within a range of 61 to
490, and all parts of the image that are brighter than the specified value
become white. This setting and the Exposure setting are related, making one
affects the other."
For the Shadow slider it states: "This slider
controls the shadow level. It can be set within a range of 0 to 60, and all
parts of the image that are darker than the specified value become black."
For the Exposure slider it states: "This
slider controls image brightness. It can be set within a range of -10 to 20,
with brightness becoming greater as the Exposure value increases. This setting
and the Highlight setting are related, changing one affects the
other."
How do I interpret ranges of 61-490 for highlights
and 0 to 60 for shadows? If I set the highlight to 255 (out of 490!?) it
automatically resets the "exposure" slider to -1. What does this
mean?
In short, how do I set these two controls to ensure
that I will be getting scans that have no driver color management?
Undying gratitude for some insight
here!
