Question re colour profiling

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I'm hoping some kind expert can help me please?
Santa delivered a Spyder2Pro for Christmas which makes a huuuge difference to the image quality on my monitor.
However, when I come to print (PS7 to an HP7960) the printed image is flat, dull & washed out compared to the on-screen image. Do I need to select the newly-calibrated profile within the "Print Space" drop-down box when printing rather than Adobe 1998, or am I missing something else? I'm hoping someone knows the answer before I embark on a trial and error mission.
Many thanks in advance...Phil
 
Phil

It's a few years since I used PS7, but I think the set up is simiar to my CS3.

OK first you need the printer profiles for your HP. They will be printer and paper and ink specific. If they didn't come with the printer try the support section of the HP web site.

Next you've got to tell PS7 it's in control of the printer
From the file menu, select Print with Preview. This brings up the dialogue box you need. At the bottom you'll see a section that says something like Output/ Colour mangement.

If the box is set to Output , Select colour management.

The display will change, and you need to ensure that Source Space is Adobe RGB ,

The Print Space needs to be your printer profile, not your newly created Monitor one

Intent select Perceptual.

Black Point ON

Now I can't help you with setting up the HP as I haven't used one. I did a quick check on the HP web site and got nothing. Perhaps someone here knows how to do it? :shrug:
 
Thats what happened to me. My canon pixma used to print out exactly what was on the screen. Then i profiled the monitor and it looked much better but obviiouslly the prints now have a yellowish colour cast....but I dont use pc cs3 to handle the printing i use the printer drivers... is that wrong?

Obviously lots of fiddling needed now!
 
Thanks a lot Chappers - that makes perfect sense. So the calibration only affects the monitor; PS7 controls the working Adobe RGB profile and the printer does exactly what PS7 tells it to - result, what you see on screen is (virtually) what gets printed?
Odd thing is though the Print Space options only list 6 or 8 ink variants - mine only has 3. Off to Google....!!
Will update this thread with the result in case anyone else is finding the same!!!
Thanks again both...
Phil
 
Janice

Probably the way I'd do it if I didn't have Photoshop or similar.That's why the printer manufacturers provide them
 
Phil

try this link.

http://h41186.www4.hp.com/country/us/en/downloads/iccmedia_profiles.html

You'll need to load the profile into the following location for XP/2000 . Windows/system32/spool /drivers/color.

You'll need to restart CS7 for it to reload the profiles. Then from the print preview select the printer profile you've just loaded.

These are generic profiles so there may be some small varaition to the print you see but it should be close enough. You could try editing the profile but that requires specialist software, so simply add a small correction in Photoshop. Not ideal but practical. You could simply make this an action which you apply just before printing.

Hope this helps
 
That's brilliant Pxl8 - many thanks. Chappers the link you refer to is for the Designjet range, but I've emailed HP for their assistance - thanks a million for the pointers guys, much appreciated.
 
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