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Shane

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I never seem to be able to get the same colour out of my printer that i'm seeing on my monitor.
I've calibrated my monitor using Adobe Gamma.

Does anyone know a calibration method that works reasonably well?

Am i expecting too much without spending ££££'s?
 
I use a Pantone Spyder and the results are acceptable to me.

Which part of Leicestershire are you in.....if you're in the south west then we could meet up and you can borrow it for a while.

Bob
 
Hi Bob, unfortunately I'm in the north east of leicestershire.

Thankyou for the very generous offer though. :D

I'll have a look in to them :D
 
Shane,

What printer are you using?
 
Getting good print to screen match can be a bit daunting. Calibrating your monitor is a good start. I've never ha much luck with Adobe gamma but then it may be me. The other aspect is the printer and the software you are using to view you images.

My monitor is calibrated using an Eye 1 unit. I print from Photoshop and Lightroom to a profiled Epson printer and get a good match.

I can understand your reluctance to spend large sums of money just to get the print and the screen to match.

can you describe in what way does the print differ from the screen. Is it too dark , too red or a combination of density and colour.

Some printer software actualy lets you make colour and density adjustments at the printing stage. Epson do this on a lot of their models.

on the other hand if you don't have this facility a real down & dirty way to solve this may be to make the image on the screen match the print. Make a note of the corrections you apply and then reverse them when you print. It's a bit hit and miss but is a fairly inexpensive option. This works reasonably well when the differences are not to great

Apps like Photoshop will let you save this as an action which you could allocated a keyboard shortcut to, such as F10.

If you adopt this approach, don't save the adjusted image, keep the original. This way you'll always have the correct image, just in case you need to make a change to the procedure


Hope this helps

John C
 
Adobe Gamma is pointless for colour correction and only does an okay job at gamma.

The cheapest and simple method of getting consistent results is a Pantone Huey. It will calibrate and profile your monitor. Photoshop will then recognise the profile and be able to translate between the working space and the display. Now when you edit you'll be working to a standard. Finally printing will need the correct profile for your printer/paper combination and you need to make sure that the printer driver is set to ICM mode with correction turned off - Photoshop will do the corrections instead.

Also be aware that there are very few apps on Windows that are properly colour managed when it comes to printing. Photoshop, QImage, and Lightroom are the only ones I've seen work - Corel PaintShopPro is supposed to but has been broken for a while now.
 
Shane said:
I'm using a Canon IP4300.

The Pantone Huey system looks good to me. christmas is on its way too :D
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I bought the pro model from dabs for less the £90. Then saw someone in Canada selling the standard one for £26 on ebay! Worth a look.
 
If you can get the original Huey cheap you can upgrade to the Pro version online. If you do it via the US site you'll pay half the price of the UK site :thumbs:
 
pxl8 said:
If you can get the original Huey cheap you can upgrade to the Pro version online. If you do it via the US site you'll pay half the price of the UK site :thumbs:
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Yes, the difference is just the software plus I got a ring binder thing full of pantone colour examples
 
pxl8 said:
Adobe Gamma is pointless for colour correction and only does an okay job at gamma.

The cheapest and simple method of getting consistent results is a Pantone Huey. It will calibrate and profile your monitor. Photoshop will then recognise the profile and be able to translate between the working space and the display. Now when you edit you'll be working to a standard. Finally printing will need the correct profile for your printer/paper combination and you need to make sure that the printer driver is set to ICM mode with correction turned off - Photoshop will do the corrections instead.

Also be aware that there are very few apps on Windows that are properly colour managed when it comes to printing. Photoshop, QImage, and Lightroom are the only ones I've seen work - Corel PaintShopPro is supposed to but has been broken for a while now.
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I ticked the box to disable the printer from doing any of the colour correction and already it looks so much closer to what i have on screen. :D:thumbs:
 
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