Monitor & printer cal.

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How do you guys go about setting up your PC monitor, and printer for the best closest to natural colour output.

I have 2 Xerox 19" LCD's and an EPSON R200 Printer.

Cheers.
 
You can sometimes download monitor profiles from the manufacturers site which you install under the video drivers advanced tab.

You can buy hardware calibration devices such as the Spyder 2 or Eye-One for monitor calibration. Prices vary for these devices.

I've heard conflicting reports on how simple these solutions are so after showing interest myself, decided not to bother.

You can also buy similar devices to calibrate your printer, or you can print a sample chart and have profiles made specific for your printer.

Personally I calibrate mine manually just using the driver adjustments and my own eye, might not be 100%, but appears accurate enough for my own use.
 
I use a pantone huey to calibrate my monitor and set printer to same as source in the options box and I make sure the printer driver corrections are switched off in the printer properties. Not perfect but a hell of a lot better than it used to be.
 
I decided to calibrate by eye after reading reports on hardware calibration which left the reviewer disappointed.

I use my printer's ICC profiles and any sent away to professional printers have come back as I would have liked so consider this close enough.

If you are having a particular difficulty post the nature of it.

HTH
 
I got some prints from my local printer and basically calibrated by eye so the shot I had on screen matched the shot I had printed, This works well for me the only issues i've noticed is sometimes i get magneta casts on B&W(duotone) photos if they dont run them through as colour.
 
Thanks people.

The problem I am having is a snap I took quickly of my ginger cat (just playing). On screen, looks good, on printing out, its so washed out, and no contrast at all. Very flat looking.
 
Thanks, according to that site, both my monitors are spot on... Must be a printer thing?
 
wcavanagh said:
Thanks, according to that site, both my monitors are spot on... Must be a printer thing?
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Possibly although you said you have a few printers so I assumed you got the same results on all?

[edit] No you didn't - misread.

Could be a clogged nozzle on the printer thats causing the colour difference. Tried printing a stripy test page?
 
hehe, two LCD's mate, lol, got to love extended desktop,

Yep, nozzle test print is perfect. Its really odd, onto glossy paper too, and highest quality the printer will do.

Bloody thing, might get some pro printed and compare
 
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