Print ICM profiles...

[JC/DV]

OK, I used a huey CC deal from Circuit City to calibrate my monitor and such. Now when I print a DVD and/or Case (Use 2 different printers- Epson R200 & HP Color LaserJet 2600n) the greys have a blue tint to them. On the monitor they are grey just as they were before.

What do I need to do? I tried printing from PS with different color profiles... Hueyxxxxxxxxxx, Epson R200, and even sRGB default. This one has me stumped.

[RatVega]

Man, I wish I had a snazzy answer to this one... I face exactly the same thing.

I know that the big time printers have or hire "profilers" to align their proof printers with the scanners and displays. I also know that they're hard to find and highly valued but almost certainly overkill for us. I think I need to discuss this with a guy in the neighborhood (who's kind of a legend at this sort of thing.)

Hopefully someone else has found a way that doesn't center on memorizing color offsets and such like mine does.

[JC/DV]

OK, I think I have it fixed. In PS, I set color settings > color management to OFF.

When printing, I set color management in print preview pane > advanced...
Color Management : Document Untagged RGB
Print Space: sRGB iexxxxxx 2.1
Intent: Relative Colorimetric
Checked: Use Black Point Compensation

Using defaults on the HP Printer, everything looks like on screen.
Using Epson, set ICM... looks a tad darker, but I'm playing with other printer settings.

Basically it works now. I forgot what it was, but has the colorspace in PS something off the wall crazy. Simple mistake...

[RatVega]

OK, I think I have it fixed. In PS, I set color settings > color management to OFF.

When printing, I set color management in print preview pane > advanced...
Color Management : Document Untagged RGB
Print Space: sRGB iexxxxxx 2.1
Intent: Relative Colorimetric
Checked: Use Black Point Compensation

Using defaults on the HP Printer, everything looks like on screen.
Using Epson, set ICM... looks a tad darker, but I'm playing with other printer settings.

Basically it works now. I forgot what it was, but has the colorspace in PS something off the wall crazy. Simple mistake...

I spoke with the fellow I mentioned above on Sunday and his first response is that "good" profiling required special software and knowledge but when I watered it down to our context, the things he pointed to were Intent (where he thought Relative Colorimetric might be best, noting that Perceptual was commonly used and essentially tried to "wedge" out-of-gamut into the color space, exacerbating the situation) and getting the correct ICM profile (if available) installed. We didn't get into the subtleties since we didn't have a system around.

Sounds like your intuition got you that far. :smile: