[filmscanners] RE: Printer colour management

["Laurie Solomon" <laurie@advancenet.net>]

Paul, you neglected to ask one set of very fundamental question which we all
tend to assume an answer and which the original message conveied no
information.  That question is: Do all your ink cartridges contain ink and
are they working.  The lose of one color due to an empty cartridge or a
malfunctioning one will reduce the saturation and make things lighter
independent of any color management or setting selection.  If it is
established that all the inks are there and the cartridges are functioning
properly, than your comments come into play.

-----Original Message-----
From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Paul D. DeRocco
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 5:05 AM
To: laurie@advancenet.net
Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Printer colour management


> Colin Maddock wrote:
>
> Wonder if anyone can help me here please. Printer colour
> management in Windows (98SE) appears to have stopped working for
> me. I have had a pretty good workflow going for my Epson
> printing, from PS, for the last year or two, but all of a sudden
> my prints became noticeably lighter and desaturated.
>
> I have now established that selecting ICM, which I normally use,
> in the printer driver makes no difference. Previously it changed
> the gamma and saturation very obviously. I've reinstalled the
> printer driver and PS, but nothing changed. Has anyone any
> suggestions as to where to look (files etc) in Windows to sort it
> out? Where exactly is the colour management done? I want to avoid
> reinstalling W98 if possible. Thanks.

Have you changed the color space you're editing your images in? Turning ICM
on means that the printer driver will accept data from a program with an
embedded profile, and use the ICM engine to convert it to the printer's
native RGB color space. If you're printing from a color space that is
already very close to the printer's color space, then turning ICM off won't
do much.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com

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