I don't know how good the Huey is. I wasn't particularly impressed
when my friend Paul used it to do calibration on his systems last
week. Very few useful options.
I use the Gretag-Macbeth Eye One Display 2 which allows me to set up
exactly the screen calibration I want (5500K white point, 1.8 gamma)
which I've found to work perfectly with the Epson printer profiles
and papers.
Quick run through (assuming CS2 ... don't know the differences to PE4):
- Color preferences set to "North American Prepress 2" preset
- Use File->Print with Preview:
-- Page Setup - select printer, paper size and orientation
(BTW, I always size the image for the intended printout prior
to printing with "Image->Image Size..." command.)
-- Set alignment and stuff
-- Color management options, for Epson set "Photoshop controls color
management", relative colormetric, pick profile for printer and
paper. For HP 7960, set "Let Printer control color management".
-- Press print button.
Now you're in the Epson or HP print driver dialog.
- Epson dialog
-- pick Print setup - advanced color, photo resolution, pick paper type
-- pick Color Management - set to off
-- click OK to print
- HP 7960 dialog
-- pick settings tab, choose paper, choose Colorsync profile, choose
maximum quality
-- pick ink tab, choose grayscale inkset (if those are the carts you
have in)
-- click print
If you've got your calibration right, the paper should reflect the
screen very precisely. PROOF to SCREEN is only really useful for web
press output.
Godfrey
On Oct 11, 2006, at 3:21 PM, Rick Womer wrote:
> I've been pretty casual about what little printing
> I've done to this point, but now I want things to look
> just the way they do on the screen.
>
> So, I bought a Huey and calibrated the monitor on our
> G5 iMac, brought up a couple of photos in PE4
> (highest-quality jpg files), and tried some prints
> with our Epson RX500.
>
> I've diddled with the myriad printing controls
> endlessly, but two things keep happening: (1) the
> "Preview" doesn't look like the image in PE4; (2) the
> print doesn't look like =either= the preview or the
> PE4 image.
>
> Can anyone direct me to some concise instructions for
> getting what's on the screen to come out of the
> printer?
>
> Rick
>
> http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW
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