Marcel
06-09-2004, 05:51 AM
At work (A small company; i do product packaging design for stuff like shower curtains, table cloths, towels and various home products), we've recieved a nice laser printer; the Xerox Phaser 7750.
Only problem is, i've been spending quite some time attempting to color adjust and calibrate the printer. And i've just about tried whatever i could on my own.
I was wondering if you have any kind of tips, techniques, guides - anything to provide consistent, accurate colors that atleast come close to WYSIWYG. I often spend a great deal of time, and i get, say, the blues just right - but then the purples come out too bright. Or warm colors look great, but blues look too purple-ish. Or Purples are fine, but reds come out completely different. Thats not EXACTLY what happens, but you know what i mean - inaccurate colors.
The first thing i knew before starting is to always disable printer's color adjustments in the printing preferences/driver.
After that, i fiddle and tweak photoshop forever and a half. I would be decently satisfied if i get something even close, but changing the color settings, playing with the print space, or changing the proof setup yields little.
I do have my monitor with proper drivers and a corresponding ICM. But even using that doesnt make it much better. I've trie making my monitor look like my prints, and my prints look like my monitor, and a mix of the two.....still, little....bah
any advice?
EDIT -> i've also noticed that Window XP's standard printing (like tell it to print a file from where it is in theMy Documents or something)tend to be a bit more accurate than most of the settings i've tried with photoshop (sad....i know)
Post Edited (Marcel) : 6/9/2004 12:57:50 AM GMT
Only problem is, i've been spending quite some time attempting to color adjust and calibrate the printer. And i've just about tried whatever i could on my own.
I was wondering if you have any kind of tips, techniques, guides - anything to provide consistent, accurate colors that atleast come close to WYSIWYG. I often spend a great deal of time, and i get, say, the blues just right - but then the purples come out too bright. Or warm colors look great, but blues look too purple-ish. Or Purples are fine, but reds come out completely different. Thats not EXACTLY what happens, but you know what i mean - inaccurate colors.
The first thing i knew before starting is to always disable printer's color adjustments in the printing preferences/driver.
After that, i fiddle and tweak photoshop forever and a half. I would be decently satisfied if i get something even close, but changing the color settings, playing with the print space, or changing the proof setup yields little.
I do have my monitor with proper drivers and a corresponding ICM. But even using that doesnt make it much better. I've trie making my monitor look like my prints, and my prints look like my monitor, and a mix of the two.....still, little....bah
any advice?
EDIT -> i've also noticed that Window XP's standard printing (like tell it to print a file from where it is in theMy Documents or something)tend to be a bit more accurate than most of the settings i've tried with photoshop (sad....i know)
Post Edited (Marcel) : 6/9/2004 12:57:50 AM GMT