Tham khảo tài liệu 'professional information technology-programming book part 51', công nghệ thông tin, kỹ thuật lập trình phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | . Printing Your Digital Images Before standardized color management came along imaging professionals simply had to keep experimenting with the settings for different combinations of camera scanner monitor printer and printing press. There were measuring instruments but they were so expensive that only enterprises doing enough volume to justify the cost or amateurs who had just won the lottery could afford them. Today you can buy a full-system color management system CMS camera scanner monitor and printer complete with instruments for making the measurements to compare color interpretation between one device and another for less than 600. And the prices continue to fall as the accuracy and ease of use keep getting better NOTE Monitor calibration is covered in the Calibrate Your Monitor section in Chapter 2 because it s one of the very first steps in a proper workflow. Now is a good time to reread that section and recalibrate your monitor. . Calibrate the Printer Every printer model and ink set interprets color in a different way. The only way you can be reasonably sure that the print you get will look like the image you prepared in Photoshop is to calibrate the printer for the particular set of inks and paper that you will use to make that particular print. By the way it s often a good idea to use a test image such as the ones in Figure 12-1. Then the monitor calibration profile and the printer calibration profile can be matched so that what you see on the monitor is what you get on paper. Figure 12-2 shows the Monaco EZcolor printer calibration dialog. Figure 12-1. The ColorVision PDI Test Image available from PhotoDisc is an excellent example of the kind of test image you should use to calibrate manually. Figure 12-2. The Monaco EZcolor printer calibration dialog. In this section you ll learn the significance of accurate printer profiles where to find prepublished profiles if they exist for your printer highly likely if you ve bought a name brand and how
