 Phillip A. Flusche |
Color printing I shoot with a Nikon D70 in Adobe RGB in RAW format. I then process with the Nikon Capture editor. I print using a Canon i9900. I also do further editing at times using Adobe PS7. The question comes when I start to print. Should I allow printer color management to take over or should I turn this off and use the output color management from the editing programs. There are numerous options for color space in PS7. Many relate back to Canon i9900 with various suffixes and prefixes. I know that Adobe RGB has more color depth than sRGB so that is why I us it. But I just am not advanced enough to know whether to aloow the printer to take over when I print or whether to use the result I have achieved after editing. I know this is a big subject. The camera sees one thing. The monitor displays something else depending on how it is calibrated and the printer does something else entirely. How do you coordinate all these things? Are there any tried and true settings?
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Phillip Corcoran |
Hi Phillip (my namesake!) Putting it simply, if you have obtained a profile for your printer/paper combination you should select that as the 'print space' in Photoshop's 'Print With Preview' - then make sure the printer driver is set to 'No Colour Adjustment' before printing. If you are not using a printer profile, set the print-space in Photoshop's 'Print With Preview' to 'Printer Colour Management', then make any colour or brightness adjustments in your printer driver before printing. You will save yourself a lot of wasted ink and paper by getting a custom profile for your printer model and paper type so you can load that into photoshop as described above, rather than the trial and error approach of making adjustments in your printer driver controls. Unless you are very lucky and get acceptable results without a profile -- very rare indeed. You can purchase ready-made printer profiles from third-party suppliers on the web. A reliable printer profile will take three things into account: Just type "Printer profiles" (with quotes) into Google and explore what it brings up. Hope this has helped. pip
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