Hi! I just tought about writing down some thoughts about printing and color.
Printers and monitors have different "gamuts" that is color ranges they can reproduce. Also monitors emit light, while prints reflect light. This basic differrence means that it is hard to compare colors on screen and paper. As far as I can understand there are a couple of advantages of using managed color for nonprofessionals. 1) Consistency 2) Correct colors in images, not distorted by monitor settings I'm using Picture Window Pro (www.dl-c.com) as image manipulation program, which gives me more setting than Adobe Photo Shop Elements. In PWP you can assign a proofing profile, so it can simulate what the picture will look like when printed. I won't say that this preview is entirely correct, but it certainly gives a hint of the cahnges introduced when printing. If using "lcms" color engine PWP will also be able to show which colors are out of gamut, this option is not available with the Windows color engine. Here is what I'm doing when printing, on my Canon i9950. 1) Choose printer setting 2) Go into manual 3) Leave everything as default (as I use original profiles) 4) In PWP:s printer dialog I set the printer profile that came with my printer for the paper I'm using. 5) Print This works pretty good for me. Regards Erik -- Erik Kaffehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] alt. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mariebergsvägen 53 +46 155 219338 (home) S-611 66 Nyköping +46 155 263515 (office) Sweden -- Message sent using 100% recycled electrons -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
