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Re: matching printer to screen
Old 05-27-2006, 11:13 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Princy,

It's not enough to make your printer match your screen.

The first thing that's needed is to get the monitor calibrated to a known standard. If you don't do this, then no one else will see exactly what you see and they won't have the same impression of your work. I use a Spyder to do this, but now there are several companies that make good calibration packages and they're not expensive. A monitor needs to be re-calibrated every month or so.

Once that's done, you need to find the correct ICC profiles for the combination of your printer and paper (and sometimes even ink) you're using. You can get hardware and software to profile your printer as well, but I've found the results to be really good with a calibrated monitor and off-the-shelf ICC profiles for the printer/paper I'm using.

Hope this helps...

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