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Poor prints from Photoshop CS2
Thanks guys,
I am in UK and I can select European prepress in PSCS2. I did a monitor calibration with my Spyder hardware and then a printer profile and some tests. Interestingly, the differences between US and European prepress are indistinguishable to my eyes and my wife's as well. But the differences between using PSCS2 and letting the printer do colour management did show some differences. We tended to agree that letting the printer do colour management produced somewhat stronger results. When PSCS2 does colour management (with the correct printer profile entered) the prints are just slightly lighter and softer. With the printer handling colour management on automatic the prints are a tiny bit richer in colour and slightly darker in the shadow tones. I assume that going to windows and telling it to install the latest profile created makes it use my profile instead of the generic epson photo 700 profile that came with windoes, but I'm not sure. We also realized that unless we have a good exposure on the original photo, things are much harder to get looking nice, even if we can tweak the photo in PSCS2. The differences between letting PSCS2 and the printer do colour management are very slight with a good photo. This surprised me as I though that PSCS2 would be better at printing than my older epson photo 700. Does anyone think that getting one of the newer printers, say the epson photo 340, will improve the ability to colour manage as opposed to finer resolution images or not. Thanks for all the advice offered. "Chris Hills" wrote in message ... In message .com, ben writes my suggestion is use correct settint in photoshop , printer driver and using correct icc profile in your printer . then you can get pro result . otherwise printing form photoshop is merely a headache . here are some suggestions to setup photoshop How to setup photoshop select edit color settings 1.select "north America prepress 2" in settings WRONG From OP's header:- Newsgroups: alt. photography, rec.photo.misc, rec.photo.technique.art, uk.rec.photo.misc Subject: Poor prints from Photoshop CS2 From: Luis Ortega This was copied to UK.rec.photo.misc and as NTLWorld is a UK ISP why would he want to set a US setting? 2.working spaces : a)rgb : adobe rgb (1998) b)cmyk: u.s web coated (swop) v2 Wrong again.. OP not in US...... -- \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\ Chris Hills Staffs England /\/\/\/\/ /\/\/ www.phaedsys.org \/\/\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ |
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Poor prints from Photoshop CS2
Luis Ortega wrote:
Printing from Photoshop CS2 has become a real headache. All of the prints are too dark ......snip..... My monitor is a Samsung SyncMaster 913n and my printer is an Epson Photo 700, and I run Win XP SP2 and use Epson glossy photo paper Check your printer driver and update as needed. I remember reading at dpreview that MS Broke Clolorsync profiles in XP SP2 and that caused a lot of Epson users grief with prints from PSCS2. Supposedly an updated driver or profile fixes it. |
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