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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] HP Printer</H1>
<B>Claire Robinson</B>
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<I>Fri Jun 22 22:56:44 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On 22/06/12 20:23, Liam R E Quin wrote:
><i> On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 15:23 -0400, Gary Montalbine wrote:
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</I>>><i> I consider good color to be a close copy of what I have on my monitor.
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</I>><i> For this to work you generally need a colour-calibrated monitor.
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</I>><i> You can buy an "open source" calibrator called the colourhug (or might
</I>><i> be colorhug) to do this.
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</I>><i> If you are scanning things to get your image then you need to calibrate
</I>><i> your scanner, using a "colour target" or photo card. ArgyleCMS (open
</I>><i> source) can help you with this, but calibrate your monitor first.
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</I>><i> Then, you need to calibrate your printer, with the inks and paper you
</I>><i> plan to use. One way to do this is to print the scan of the photo card,
</I>><i> once you have calibrated your scanner. Then scan the printout and use
</I>><i> argyleCMS to generate a profile.
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</I>><i> Also, note that each device - scanner, camera, monitor, printer - has a
</I>><i> range of colours it can print, called its "gamut", and the ranges are
</I>><i> not the same.
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</I>><i> Some open source software, such as darktable and possible gimp with the
</I>><i> separate+ plugin, may be able to point out which colours are out of
</I>><i> gamut for the target device, I'm not sure.
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</I>><i> xsane has colour management support once you have a colour profile.
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</I>><i> You can actually get a long way more cheaply and simply by looking
</I>><i> for .icc or .icm files (the colour profiles describing a device) for
</I>><i> your printer and monitor, but since there's huge variation both with age
</I>><i> of device and between devices, it's not really a good idea.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Liam
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You should write a wiki page about this Liam :)
Claire
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