Re: magenta again

[Brian Blankenship <brian@bngraphics.com>]

Hey Russell I know your pain man. It's probably your printer's ICC Profile. 
ICC is Image Color Correction, it's supposed to make all our printers, 
scanners and monitors talk to each other so that they all give and get the 
same colors. The problem with them is that they need to be calibrated. 
Since it printed fine on your friends system, i'd say his is all 
calibrated. We all the easiest way to do this is to get one of those 
"spider" things (BRIAN WANTS ONE!!!) and the reason why is that calibrating 
"by hand" is time and ink consuming. And frankly i have no real idea of how 
to calibrate a printer other than to make a print, alter your ICC profile 
for it as needed and repeat until the prints are what you want them to be. 
And I don't know where the ICCs are whter they are in control panel, some 
where in the printer software, or in PS somewhere. I know PS has a 
calibration thing in control panel for the monitor but I haven't worked 
with Ink jets yet... just web presses.

If someone knows just how to calibrate your particular printer that would 
be a big help.

Hopew i helped some, time to get ready for the fireworks at Walnut beach 
now, byebye guys.


At 06:37 PM 7/5/2003, you wrote:
> Hi Gang...........
>
> I had mentioned that I was having quite
> a problem of getting a magenta cast to my
> photos printing them in an Epson 820 printer.
>
> I do have PS 5.5 and Paint Shop 6.
>
> It does it with any program I use.
>
> I was using Carrot Co.Ink.
>
> I switched back to Epson Ink.
>
> No difference.
>
> Tried different paper.....
>
> No difference.
>
> I printed a photo using
> Windows Picture and Fax viewer.
>
> (I was trying to eliminate using a
> program that had color management control)
>
> I printed at automatic.
> I got a Magenta cast...........
>
>
> I took the image to a friends house
> who also has an Epson 820 printer.
>
> It printed fine there on automatic,
> no magenta cast.
>
> I borrowed his printer and
> installed it on my computer............
>
> Using any program I still get the magenta cast..........
>
>
> What in the world is my computer doing to add this magenta cast?
>
>
> Thanks................
>
>
>
>
> Russ
> R.E. Baker
> Photography
> rebphoto@pronetisp.net



Brian Blankenship
www.bngraphics.com