Printer Colour calibration

I have an officejet pro K8600 running under Windows 7. I know this would not be considered a true photo quality printer but the output is good enough for my purposes generally.
The only caveat is that when I print on photo paper the results are always darker than the screen display. The screen itself has been calibrated with a Spyder (which has corrected the yellow tinge in Photo Viewer). Is there a method published to calibrate the colour rendition of the photo output so I don't have to over lighten the pictures on screen to get a good print?

Similar Messages

Colour Calibration / White Point setting - Is Imac Display really professional quality

I am trying to calibrate my imac 27" using i1 Display2 calibration software. I am trying to set a traget of 6500 using the software but it advises the current is only 5600 and suggests moving the RGB sliders to get this current white point up to my 6500 target. Unfortunatly i have no idea where i find these sliders on my imac. Can anyone advise how i change my current white point to get to the 6500 target?
Also, on the brightness issue, does shades work to reduce my brightness or will it simply interfere with my colour calibration?
Finally, i was going to use my iMac for professional photography. (Mainly on line but some print work required). Honestly, is the iMac display up to the job or should i consider changing
Thanks
Gary

Corbybhy, the glossy screen is the biggest and silliest myth out there. Really.
I have been a professional art director & designer for over 26 years, and by the way, for many years my high end professional CRTS were made of glass (and glossy). Another myth is that the screens cannot be calibrated, and are too bright. Hogwash. I use Spyder3Pro and have had few problems, guessing your device will be the same. Actually, the monitors seem to stay consistant for a heck of a lot longer than the old high end CRTs did. In the old days, most professionals calibrated to 5000k, but these days 6500k is the standard.
The amount of MISINFORMATION that is being spewed always amazes me. If you can keep your lighting consistant and somewhat dim, your life will be easier. Reflections are simply not a major issue, and are also overblown as a issue (by the way, my iMac sits next to a window, I just use shades to dim the ambient light).
I work mostly in print, and produce mostly publications, advertising & marketing materials. I have ZERO issues with my screen matching my proofs. ZERO. I do a huge amount of imaging, retouching & post-processing... all from my 27" iMac.

Newbie PDF screen display/print colour problem

First let me say I've been searching through the forums for an answer for my problem and drawn a blank, mostly I suspect because I'm not exactly sure what the problem is. Also I understand the basics of colour profiles but a large proportion of it goes over my head.
The problem:
Our key "corporate" colour is C0 M100 Y75 K25 - I can get reliable and pretty consistent print colour that I am happy with, across a range of devices from documents I produce in Indesign
For screen output e.g. our website, taking an average of several different devices and monitors (none with any kind of calibration i.e. an average user) this equates to approx R130 G11 B34
I am producing a number of PDF 'factsheets' that will be downloadable from the website and I anticipate that some people will just view these 'on screen' and some will print out for reference.
The problem is C0 M100 Y75 K25 and R130 G11 B34 look radically different when viewed on screen or printed - I almost need a PDF 'screen' profile and print profile within the same document. I know I can get a match on my screen if I calibrate it, but I need it to look more or less correct for anybody who views the PDF.
I hope I've explained this clearly enough and any help or direction anyone can give would be really appreciated!
Thanks in advance

Ahhhh...I see what you are saying now Rob. Unfortunately the docs don't soft proof correctly on my display either - take on board that my display is not calibrated and also I would think 99.9% of the target audience for the PDF won't have a calibrated display either - so I am after a solution that falls to the lowest common denominator.
However, if my understanding of what you are saying is correct, if I had a profile that I could use on my uncalibrated monitor that soft-proofs correctly (more or less - I'm not going for absolute accuracy, just somewhere in the right ballpark), then using the PDF/X4 preset with that profile set would mean others opening the PDF on similarly uncalibrated monitors would also see the more or less correct colours?
Would that profile not throw the colours out on the print if that end user then decided to print it out?
Again, apologies for the simple nature of the questions, but I've only been using InDesign for about 8 months and so far I've lived with the colours appearing wrong on screen as I've known they come out how I expect at print time. This is the first thing I've done where I would like it to look more-or-less correct on screen as well as in print.
Thanks for taking the time to reply, I really do appreciate it

LP2475 - best colour calibration settings for stock photography

Hi - I have just purchased the LP2475 and am new at colour calibration. The general colour seems very over saturated.
I am mainly using the monitor it to do 2 main things :
1) using lightroom / pshop and adjusting photos that will be available online for stock photography purchasing.
2) using lightroom /pshop and adjusting panos to print via 2 out-of-house print companies.
I understand that I have to buy a colour calibration device and I will make up custom printer profiles for the 2 different companies where I get my photos printed (one is a canvas & one is a photo printing company).
However, the issue lies in what general calibration settings I should have in lightroom / pshop for my stock photos - because once sold, they will be printed on all various types of printers, and viewed through various types of monitors - most not calibrated. So what are good general settings. It seems very over saturated with colour, and I cannot actually seem to adjust the saturation in the button menu on the monitor as this setting is greyed out.
Thanks
Lucy

I recently bought a Spyder2Pro, which was
recommended
by Scott Kelby, Editor of Photoshop User Magazine,
and am very happy with it. The main difference
between Spyder2Pro and Spyder2 are multiple
monitor
support and more choices for monitor gamma and
tempereature settings. Since I use multiple
monitors, I went for Spyder2Pro, although it was a
bit more pricy (got it for $189 at JR.com). All
my
monitors were calibrated very quickly and I was
amazed how much difference the tool made. If you
have one monitor to calibrate, I think Spyder2
would
be fine (it was $89 at JR.com a few days ago).
One hint with the multiple monitor thing is that on
the Mac, all of these tools just end up generating an
ICC profile that gets assigned to your monitor.
What that means is that they all actually support
multiple monitors, just not all automatically... for
the ones that do not know how to select displays, you
can just move the menu bar to whatever screen you
wish to profile and the software should create a
profile for that screen.
I use the EyeOne and like it a lot. But any hardware
calibrator is better than none.
As a side note, I think using a color temperature of
65k for the monitor and a gamma of 2.2 is really a
good setting to use with any calibrator.
Svendo,
I fully support the comments in this post but still prefer the GM Eye 1. Dont try to do the job with your eye. 99 times out of 100 you will be way off the mark.

GT72 - Dragon Gaming Centre "Instant Play" & Display Colour Calibration issue

Hi guys,
Very much enjoying my GT72, but I've noticed a strange error that I can't seem to find the solution to either on this forum or elsewhere.
Basically the computer boots up to an incorrect colour calibration setting (really blue) which I have tried to set properly with the default windows "Calibrate Display Colour" tool. It seems to stick after doing that, but rebooting reverts it to the previous default.
I've also noticed that when pressing Fn+F4 for the Instant Play, it seems to change color display settings; if it was on the default really blue setting it'd change to my calibration, and vice versa.
I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to prevent Instant Play changing calibration settings and having my calibration stick between reboots?
Thanks in advance!

yeah.... with so much different angle and good quality, they are truly good photo shooting pieces!
Quote from: jassebomb on 03-April-15, 13:51:37
Nice photos

Configure printer colour setting as grayscale

How to configure the Printer colour setting to grayscale as default option in workgroup manager, i am pushing printer drivers for client using workgroup manager but cant set the colour option

It really depends on the printer and the application used and the operating system. You might want to save some default layout configurations in the Page Setup and ask your users to use them when going grayscale. But since not all printer drivers behave the same way, and not all applications offer Page Setup, that advice is only partially true.

HP Photosmart Premium - C309g and it has stopped printing in black (but will print colour)

Hi my HP Photosmart Premium - C309g and it has stopped printing in black (but will print colour). I've tried:-
printing test page - blank apart from windows logo
powering off and on
printing form different programmes.
Both black printer cartridges are full.
printer is 3 days out of one year guarantee!
I'm not very technical so easy solutions would be preferred.
Thanks
This question was solved.
View Solution.

Try the solution in this thread for cleaning the C309g printhead.
Please mark the post that solves your issue as "Accept as Solution".
If my answer was helpful click the “Thumbs Up" on the left to say “Thanks”!
I am not a HP employee.

Switch off printer colour management

Hello,
I am on a Mac Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and using IDCS5 to print to a Canon Pro 9500 printer.
When I get to the print dialog, I can only select colour handling by indesign. There is no option for colour managed by printer which is fine because I would prefer to have indesign manage the colours.
However when I go to printer settings dialog I cannot turn off the printer colour management. There are two radio buttons only in the colour matching section. One is canon colour matching and the other is Coloursync from which I can select from various colour profiles.
I can't figure out how to disable colour mangement from the printer driver.
Can someone help me with this please?
Jach

I can see what you are saying about objects with different profiles in one indesign document. But the output has to be just one profile - in my case my custom built profile for the type of paper and my inkjet printer.
So if my understanding is right - Indesign takes the number colours from the various objects in the document and convert them to numbers that my printer will use for a particular type of paper. To do this conversion indesign needs a recipe, and that recipe is in the form of my custum built profile.
However, what is happening so far, is that indesign is converting the colours using my profile but then the printer driver is also doing some form of conversion which is messing up the colours.
What I did try is select the right profile in the indesign print dialogue and then went to printer settings and chose colour sync and the same profile from the drop down list. I was hoping that selecting the same profile in both indesign and printer driver would result in preventing double profiling. However the results were bad.
I am not sure how choosing DocumentRGB is going to help. Because my colour setting across the adobe suite is ProPhoto RGB for the RGB settings.
If I go to the drop down menu for printer profile, one of the options I get is "DocumentRGB - ProPhotoRGB". Wouldn't this be wrong if some of the images in my document are sRGB or some other colour space?

Disable printer colour management

Hi
   I have just bought the above printer to replace a very simple Canon pixma. I use Windows Live editing and Photoshop Elements too.   To get the results required its suggested by Photoshop that the printer colour management is disabled to use Photoshops.This didnt seem to be possible with Pixma.     But expected a better printer to have this function
However Iaam getting the same warning box. Printing to non interpolative (spelling?) printer. The images iaren't printing asthey were when they left photoshop.
Can I do this with this machine or have I made a mistak in buying this machine. Its options seem limited for a machine worth around 60.00

Hello @Jenny105,
Welcome to the HP Support Forums!
I would like to assist you today with resolving the Photoshop Elements error that you're receiving when printing from your Windows 7 computer to your HP Envy 4500 All-in-One. I did some research into this error and found that the message "Printing to non interpolated printer" is a postscript error. This indicates that rather than just a colour issue, you have a settings issue under Photoshop.  Apparently this message is just informing you that you have Postscript settings and you are using a non Postscript printer. Postscript is a printer language. Consumer printers, like your HP Envy, are only PCL 3 for their printing language capabilities. If you need to use Postscript settings (such as halftone patterns, transfer curves, interpolation . . .) than you will need a Postscript capable printer, like a Laserjet, or commerical Inkjet. Also, because you're finding that the colours aren't printing correctly, you may need to adjust the colour profile information under Photoshop.
For instructions on how to adjust the colour profile settings, please click here. You can choose to either 'let Photoshop determine printed colours' or 'Let printer determine printed colours'.
Once you have adjusted the colour profile settings, please test printing again.
Please let me know if the colour profile adjustment resolves your issues. Best of luck!
X-23
I work on behalf of HP
Please click "Accept as Solution" if you feel my post solved your issue, it will help others find the solution.
Click the "Kudos, Thumbs Up" on the right to say "Thanks" for helping!

Disabling printer colour management

Hi,
my prints are coming out very dark on my Epson 4400 from photshop CS6 on my Mac OS X10.8.5
In the print window it says to disable the printer colour management from the print settings dialogue box but I can't find this anywhere. I have seleceted Photoshop to manage the colours.
Any advice much needed!

It should be in your main Print window...Print > Color Handling. I have mine set for "Let Printer Manage Colors" because the Epson driver has a lot of options I want to take advantage of and is engineered to interpret application color settings accurately.

How do I turn off the printer colour management in printer drivers on my photosmart C7280

photosmart C7280
How do I turn off the printer colour management in printer drivers

HI whcotton,
You can click here to go to a post for help with disabling the printer color management for your printer. This person was having the same issue as you and the accepted solution worked for them. Hope you find this helpful.
If I helped you at all it would be great if you clicked the blue kudos star!
If I solved your post please mark it as solved to help others.
I'm a printer tech with HP.

Colour calibration

Dear all,
I am a keen photographer and Aperture user, although it is a hobby and i do not make an income from photography (yet...)
As i discover more about colour management, the more concerned i become about my eye judgement and use of os x colour calibration software. I feel it is time to get serious and splash out for a propper colour calibrator. However, with so many on the market, including the new spyder lite(any good?)and huey i am unsure which would be best for my requirements, given a limited budget. Can anyone help me? What hardware do you use/recomend?
Thanks in advance,
Svendo.

I recently bought a Spyder2Pro, which was
recommended
by Scott Kelby, Editor of Photoshop User Magazine,
and am very happy with it. The main difference
between Spyder2Pro and Spyder2 are multiple
monitor
support and more choices for monitor gamma and
tempereature settings. Since I use multiple
monitors, I went for Spyder2Pro, although it was a
bit more pricy (got it for $189 at JR.com). All
my
monitors were calibrated very quickly and I was
amazed how much difference the tool made. If you
have one monitor to calibrate, I think Spyder2
would
be fine (it was $89 at JR.com a few days ago).
One hint with the multiple monitor thing is that on
the Mac, all of these tools just end up generating an
ICC profile that gets assigned to your monitor.
What that means is that they all actually support
multiple monitors, just not all automatically... for
the ones that do not know how to select displays, you
can just move the menu bar to whatever screen you
wish to profile and the software should create a
profile for that screen.
I use the EyeOne and like it a lot. But any hardware
calibrator is better than none.
As a side note, I think using a color temperature of
65k for the monitor and a gamma of 2.2 is really a
good setting to use with any calibrator.
Svendo,
I fully support the comments in this post but still prefer the GM Eye 1. Dont try to do the job with your eye. 99 times out of 100 you will be way off the mark.

Print colours

I have a HP 1210 printer.I replaced the colour cartridge with a cheaper brand and the printed colours became washed out and the picture which should have been green looked more brownish. I changed the cartridge back to the original and cleaned the heads twice but cannot get the original bright green colours to print. Any ideas?

Having another go at this one but sadly making no progress.   Because some of my terminology is non standard I will try to repeat what I am doing to match your words.
Have pasted your text onto a text edit page and that (in the form of a text clipping) has found its way into FINDER.
Just to recap the procedure, I am working directly from the communities page with your instructions.
... I go to Safari > preferences > advanced.
... after selecting 'other' the screen switches immediately and superimposes the FINDER screen over the community page.   There, it is the only file greyed out and FINDER offers but one option ... cancel.
... I can find no way to type the ASC.CSS in the box where 'other' was written as per your picture in your post before last; it's all covered by the FINDER screen anyway.
Clearly I am taking a wrong turning somewhere .... but where.    So please don't feel embarrassed if we can go no further.   You've done such a lot already and I'll go back to this from time to time to try and crack it.

Win7 does not remember colour calibration

Hi,
glad to have Win7 working on my beautiful MBP.
For some reason it does not remember the setting after colour calibration.
Any help would very much appreciated.
MBP 15" early 2011 model running Win7 ultimate using latest bootcamp drivers

Yep.
Checked XP and it is unchecked there as well.
Thanks, Curt Y!

PSE6 Mac Printing Colours darker than PSE4 - Adobe accepts problem !Help!

*PSE6 Mac Printing Colours darker than PSE4 - Adobe accepts fault*
My work requires that when I create prints for artists I must replicate all the prints exactly everytime. It worked perfectly from PSE2, PSE3 and PSE4 but now......
I am unable to replicate quality of printing on MACOSX PSE6. it works great on PSE4. I mailed some printed images on art paper to adobe in amsterdam and a cd with the same images. After weeks of discussions phone, email and after testing using their work flow....they came back with some answers.
Finally a couple of replies from Adobe re colour problems and they have accepted that they are double managing the image and that I should use printer management to do the colour conversion.. here are their two replies and the comment that they will now drop me until???????   
Answer #1   Your Customer Service Number is: 129800224   Thank you for contacting Adobe Technical Support.   After consulting with my colleagues about the issue you raised, I can let you know the following:   The issue is both on our as well as the driver software side and the workaround we have given is the best available at this time. This issue is affecting all printers, not just Epson or Canon.   The soft proofing effect that you are seeing in the print preview is indeed an attempt at soft proofing. However since Photoshop Elements managed prints are incorrectly double colour managed it is not as useful as it was initially designed.   As to the exact details of why this occurred, we have no official information.   We believe that this will resolve the issues you are experiencing, however, should the reply not help solve the problem, please contact us again, quoting the case number given above, and we will re-open the case.
  Answer # 2  Subject: Re: Adobe TS #180107025 / Mario / PSE6 oversaturated Print (KMM3793441I51L0KM)   Dear Mr. Laugesen,   We have had word back from our engineers regarding your issue.   The Photoshop Elements team are aware of the problem and are working with Apple and the printer manufacturers to get this to work correctly. In the meantime, the only workaround is to switch off colour management in Photoshop Elements and let the printer handle the colour management.   Unfortunately we can not make an estimation as to when a fix will be provided. We will close the case for the time being as there really is nothing more we can do about this issue besides offering the suggested workaround. Closing this case does not mean that the research will stop however and the engineers are working on a solution to this.

finally fixed With PSE9

Printer Colour calibration

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for