canoflan
15th of November 2006 (Wed), 09:47
I bought the Monaco Optix XR and EZ color suite last evening and calibrated my 20.1 inch wide aspect Dell monitor. The colors match the prints.
I found that when printing a color chart for comparison for a wide array of colors, I find that the colors match on the screen, but are more saturated in the print than on the screen. I use Ilford smooth and classic pearl papers and the profiles from their website. Is this normal? When I compared a regular print of a landscape, etc..., the color saturation is pretty much dead on.
I haven't read about this detail in any other thread and not sure how many of you are into creating your own printer profiles with the scanner as the EZ color suite requires.
The question is: should I use the printer profile editor to edit one of these Ilford profiles to create a custom profile since they are so close already? Or just borrow a scanner and create a custom profile. I am not sure of the scanner quality to borrow since some may not have the ability to turn off color management, etc....
What have y'all tried?
All in all, I am happy with the color, but just find the saturation of the colors in the print a bit baffling.
Any thoughts would be most welcome and thanks for the time you take to reply.
My best to all of you.:)
I found that when printing a color chart for comparison for a wide array of colors, I find that the colors match on the screen, but are more saturated in the print than on the screen. I use Ilford smooth and classic pearl papers and the profiles from their website. Is this normal? When I compared a regular print of a landscape, etc..., the color saturation is pretty much dead on.
I haven't read about this detail in any other thread and not sure how many of you are into creating your own printer profiles with the scanner as the EZ color suite requires.
The question is: should I use the printer profile editor to edit one of these Ilford profiles to create a custom profile since they are so close already? Or just borrow a scanner and create a custom profile. I am not sure of the scanner quality to borrow since some may not have the ability to turn off color management, etc....
What have y'all tried?
All in all, I am happy with the color, but just find the saturation of the colors in the print a bit baffling.
Any thoughts would be most welcome and thanks for the time you take to reply.
My best to all of you.:)