icc profiles for printing/monitor printer profiling

[bill_wasp]

Help!!! :shock:
I am at a point where I am focusing on having the powerbook monitor look like the image that gets printed on my S9000. I know that the pre-packed paper output choices for the 900 are ...limited to canon papers. I also know there are ICC profiles for each paper vendor , and for each paper type. I am looking at a EZcolor product to get the monitor and output to match. However...............can ANYONE put all this in perspective? I'm not sure whether to call Canon, Adobe ( for elements 2), or apple ( for my mac)..

HELP!

[LiquidDye]

Well I have a Spyder monitor and printfix profiler and they did it for me £275, having said that I had excelent results from my i9100 with the standard Canon driver and using adobe 1998 working space in elements, dont forget to select the profile of the working space from the print preview and also absolute colour metric in the print preview screen, then from the printer driver software choose quality custom 1 and high diffusion then custom colour choose photo from the drop down and leave brightness on normal, raise the intensity bar to 10 and the black and blue leave at 0 and the yellow lower to -5 and the magneta to +4 then in the effects tab tick vivid photo, optimizer, apply through complete page and leave the amount to normal. O and try the premium top of the range Kodak injet papers they are exceptional with colour vibrance. One last thing if you do shoot with digital try RAW as this allows all the adjusting you want in post edit try capture one soft ware it rocks, lets you adjust everything even exposure in .05 stops., also found most people have their monitors to bright.

[scottbergerphoto]

Help!!! :shock:
I am at a point where I am focusing on having the powerbook monitor look like the image that gets printed on my S9000. I know that the pre-packed paper output choices for the 900 are ...limited to canon papers. I also know there are ICC profiles for each paper vendor , and for each paper type. I am looking at a EZcolor product to get the monitor and output to match. However...............can ANYONE put all this in perspective? I'm not sure whether to call Canon, Adobe ( for elements 2), or apple ( for my mac)..

HELP!
The first step in any color managed workflow is a calibrated monitor. There are calibration packages available from Colorvision and Gretag Macbeth and others. Unfortunately, my system is windows based and wouldn't know where to tell you to make sure that monitor profile goes. Once you have your custom monitor profile created and selected as your default monitor profile, you can move on to printer/paper ICC profiles.
good luck,
Scott

[Jesper]

Do you want to learn about color management, ICC profiles etc.? An excellent source to learn how it all works are Norman Koren's pages about color management (http://www.normankoren.com/color_management.html) - he also has some links to more information and books about this subject.

To get accurate color management, it's absolutely necessary to use a hardware calibration device to calibrate your monitor, such as a Spyder. Software-only solutions, such as Adobe Gamma that you get with Photoshop, don't work very well.

If you calibrate and profile your monitor with a Spyder and use the generic ICC profiles that came with your printer, you'll most likely get a reasonably good match. If you want an even better match, you can buy something to create custom profiles for your printer, ink and paper, or have the custom profiling for your combination of printer, ink and paper made by a service (for example, Digital Outback Photo (http://www.outbackphoto.com/profiling_service/profiling.html)).