you have to have three ingredients, calibrated monitor, calibrated printer, and an application that understands and uses color management. what is your application for maniupulating and printing? i can do straight prints without manipulation and they will look good almost all of the time. they will look better if i do some color adjustments, typically contrast and white balance. if i don't do any sharpening, it takes me on average about 30 seconds to do all my color adjustments to an image and know that i will get a very good print.
Herb... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 8:03 PM Subject: Re: Epson 2200 > But that's what I'm trying to avoid... maybe I don't get it. I can stomach > doing adjustments to the image as seen on the monitor, but once I get it > 'right' on the monitor, I want the print to be a 'best match'. Otherwise > it's purely guesswork about how to make the monitor image look 'wrong' so > that it prints 'right'. That's why I haven't been doing many prints of my > own... it takes forever. It seems that I have to do this everytime I make a > print, not just once in a while.
