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colour management

Jun 17, 2004 8:35PM PDT

I have an Illyama monitor, photoshop 7, canon s20 digicam and Epson 870 stylus. I am reasonably competent now with most parameters in phsh. That sounds a bit complacent, but I have run into an insoluble problem with colour correction. My pictures are sharp well composed, contrast balanced and so on but some colours which are accurate on my monitor will not print accurately. Particularly in the blue spectrum. Some dark blues are correct, but I have been trying to collect and print pictures of hardy geraniums which vay from a rich blue, through to magenta and pink, but they come out mauve or pinkish red but nowhere near the correct hue. So to try and record an accurate record of plant colours seems almost impossible particularly as wide variations in the blue magenta spectrum are present in many flowers. The pictures I print are pretty but useless as a true record.
My monitor is gamma corrected, printer properties correct. Printing a colour wheel and RGB triplet chart gives sharp clear colours. Monitor colours are true and the printer gives a clear accurate reproduction of web pictures, google images print accurately.
The problem seems to be in the dialogue between Photoshop and the printer. I have tried every combination in colour settings; photoshop colour correction off, with epson on and the reverse. I am stymied. Pretty pictures, untrue colours. I gather this is a common experience. I cant find any reference to this problem in various photoshop tutorials.
I realise that gamut is at the heart of this and maybe printing a true blue and magenta range is not possible with a 5 colour plus black printer such as the epson. I find this hard to accept given the sophistication of phsh and epson. I'm sure a lot of people have this problem. Sorry to go on at such length but I cant believe it is not possible to print at least every colour accurately in the RGB Hex Triplet colour chart. Perhaps there is a simple trick I've missed!!Help please. Regards Peter Holyfield

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Re: colour management
Jul 5, 2004 1:19AM PDT

Web rot at just the right time!

Let's try this one?

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0404/04040501pantonecolorvision.asp

If you are concerned about the color accuracy, then you need this. If you are just taking out RED-EYE or "basic" items that don't need to be color correct, then you can pass.

Let me comment that these used to be much more expensive.

Bob

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Print colour problems
Mar 30, 2006 9:14PM PST

I have been struggling with the same problem so I got a print profile produced for my printer which worked great. Try www,pureprofiles.com. A profile will cost approx