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Please help with print basics!


Steve, you are correct...I meant Proof Colors. : )

BUT...I do also sometimes apply a softproof profile that we have developed to show CMYK calibrated to our presses.
 
Steve said:
Most of the time I print on Canon Fine Art Photo Rag and have the correct profiles for that paper.
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Sorry to confuse - What the profiles do is try to make the colours as consistent as possible across different medias. Of course, there will normally be some differences, particularly between say, a satin art paper and a high gloss photo paper. The profiles also control the amount of ink that gets laid down on the paper by the printer (which also affects the colours).

What I meant when I said "then the drivers provided are most likely to have been set up for someone who wants to have sharp, snappy, saturated photos." is that if your printer is aimed at Joe Public who just wants to print his family photos and have them look snappy, then the driver / ink / media combination will give that. This doesn't necessarily mean that the colours are accurate.

I'm not familiar with the pro9000, so I can't really say whether RGB is better or not. However, if you're happy with the results, then use RGB (I'd assume that most desktop inkjets are setup to work well from RGB files, as most people printing their photos at home probably aren't even aware that CMYK exists)

I know you weren't poking fun at my expertise - I was!!
 
I'm starting to understand what you're saying but you and Scott are both commercial printing guys and you're seeing it from a certain perspective.
You guys I assume need to deal with absolute repeatable accuracy.

In Adobe's own reference page, Adobe Photoshop CS5 * About desktop printing , they say,

If your image is in RGB mode, do not convert the document to CMYK mode when printing to a desktop printer. Work entirely in RGB mode. As a rule, desktop printers are configured to accept RGB data and use internal software to convert to CMYK. If you send CMYK data, most desktop printers apply a conversion anyway, with unpredictable results
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I'm getting good results but are my colors dead on accurate, I'm sure they're not, and have no way to check.
 
Best thing to do if you need dead on accurate results...calibrate monitor and printer.

Color is a real "grey' area...hehe...not only is it subjective to lighting, it's subjective to people and how they feel, paper, etc... if you are getting results that meet your expectations, then it's all gravy! :)
 
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