HP DesignJet D5800 Using Your Printer - Page 93

Color management example with Photoshop, Synchronized color management with Photoshop

Page 93 highlights

● In the Windows driver dialog: select the Color tab. ● In the Mac OS X Print dialog: select the Color Options panel. ● In some applications: you can make this choice in the application. Color management example with Photoshop In this example, you have an Adobe RGB image that you want to print from Photoshop. There are three ways of doing it. ● Select Let Photoshop determine colors in Photoshop. Select Application-Managed Colors in the printer driver. Color management is done in Photoshop. This is the recommended way. ● Select Let printer determine colors in Photoshop. Select Printer-Managed Colors and the sRGB profile in the printer driver. Photoshop converts the image from Adobe RGB to sRGB and sends it to the printer. Color management is done in the printer. Unfortunately, conversion to sRGB results in a loss of gamut, but Photoshop cannot be prevented from converting to sRGB when Let printer determine colors is selected. ● Select No color management in Photoshop. Select Printer-Managed Colors and the AdobeRGB profile in the printer driver. Photoshop does not perform any conversion, there is no loss of gamut, and color management is done in the printer. However, this method will not work if you are using synchronized color management in Photoshop (see below). Synchronized color management with Photoshop If you are using Adobe Photoshop CS2 for MAC OS X, or Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Windows, or later versions, the color management options can be automatically synchronized between Photoshop and the driver. ● If you select Let Photoshop determine colors or No color management in Photoshop, Application- Managed Colors is automatically selected in the driver. ● If you select Let printer determine colors in Photoshop, Printer-Managed Colors is automatically selected in the driver. The PostScript driver will use the color profile attached to the job by Photoshop. To enable this Photoshop synchronization under Windows XP, you must download and install the following free software packages from Microsoft's Web site: ● Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0 ● Microsoft XML Paper Specification Essentials Pack 1.0 Color-adjustment options The aim of color management is to print accurate colors. If you perform color management correctly, then you should be able to print accurate colors with no need of any manual color adjustments. However, manual adjustments may be useful in the following situations: ● If your color management is not working correctly for some reason ● If you want colors that are subjectively pleasing rather than accurate The printer driver provides different adjustment facilities depending on whether you are printing in color or in grayscale. If you are printing in pure black and white, there are no color adjustment options. Printing in color You can adjust the colors of your print under Windows: ENWW Color-adjustment options 85

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30
  • 31
  • 32
  • 33
  • 34
  • 35
  • 36
  • 37
  • 38
  • 39
  • 40
  • 41
  • 42
  • 43
  • 44
  • 45
  • 46
  • 47
  • 48
  • 49
  • 50
  • 51
  • 52
  • 53
  • 54
  • 55
  • 56
  • 57
  • 58
  • 59
  • 60
  • 61
  • 62
  • 63
  • 64
  • 65
  • 66
  • 67
  • 68
  • 69
  • 70
  • 71
  • 72
  • 73
  • 74
  • 75
  • 76
  • 77
  • 78
  • 79
  • 80
  • 81
  • 82
  • 83
  • 84
  • 85
  • 86
  • 87
  • 88
  • 89
  • 90
  • 91
  • 92
  • 93
  • 94
  • 95
  • 96
  • 97
  • 98
  • 99
  • 100
  • 101
  • 102
  • 103
  • 104
  • 105
  • 106
  • 107
  • 108
  • 109
  • 110
  • 111
  • 112
  • 113
  • 114
  • 115
  • 116
  • 117
  • 118
  • 119
  • 120
  • 121
  • 122
  • 123
  • 124
  • 125
  • 126
  • 127
  • 128
  • 129
  • 130
  • 131
  • 132
  • 133
  • 134
  • 135
  • 136
  • 137
  • 138
  • 139
  • 140
  • 141
  • 142
  • 143
  • 144
  • 145
  • 146
  • 147
  • 148
  • 149
  • 150
  • 151
  • 152
  • 153
  • 154
  • 155
  • 156
  • 157
  • 158
  • 159
  • 160
  • 161
  • 162
  • 163
  • 164
  • 165
  • 166
  • 167
  • 168
  • 169
  • 170
  • 171
  • 172
  • 173
  • 174
  • 175
  • 176
  • 177
  • 178
  • 179
  • 180
  • 181
  • 182
  • 183
  • 184
  • 185
  • 186
  • 187
  • 188
  • 189

In the Windows driver dialog:
select the
Color
tab.
In the Mac OS X Print dialog:
select the
Color Options
panel.
In some applications:
you can make this choice in the application.
Color management example with Photoshop
In this example, you have an Adobe RGB image that you want to print from Photoshop. There are three ways
of doing it.
Select
Let Photoshop determine colors
in Photoshop. Select
Application-Managed Colors
in the
printer driver. Color management is done in Photoshop. This is the recommended way.
Select
Let printer determine colors
in Photoshop. Select
Printer-Managed Colors
and the sRGB profile
in the printer driver. Photoshop converts the image from Adobe RGB to sRGB and sends it to the printer.
Color management is done in the printer. Unfortunately, conversion to sRGB results in a loss of gamut,
but Photoshop cannot be prevented from converting to sRGB when
Let printer determine colors
is
selected.
Select
No color management
in Photoshop. Select
Printer-Managed Colors
and the AdobeRGB profile
in the printer driver. Photoshop does not perform any conversion, there is no loss of gamut, and color
management is done in the printer. However, this method will not work if you are using synchronized
color management in Photoshop (see below).
Synchronized color management with Photoshop
If you are using Adobe Photoshop CS2 for MAC OS X, or Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Windows, or later versions,
the color management options can be automatically synchronized between Photoshop and the driver.
If you select
Let Photoshop determine colors
or
No color management
in Photoshop,
Application-
Managed Colors
is automatically selected in the driver.
If you select
Let printer determine colors
in Photoshop,
Printer-Managed Colors
is automatically
selected in the driver. The PostScript driver will use the color profile attached to the job by Photoshop.
To enable this Photoshop synchronization under Windows XP, you must download and install the following
free software packages from Microsoft's Web site:
Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0
Microsoft XML Paper Specification Essentials Pack 1.0
Color-adjustment options
The aim of color management is to print accurate colors. If you perform color management correctly, then
you should be able to print accurate colors with no need of any manual color adjustments.
However, manual adjustments may be useful in the following situations:
If your color management is not working correctly for some reason
If you want colors that are subjectively pleasing rather than accurate
The printer driver provides different adjustment facilities depending on whether you are printing in color or in
grayscale. If you are printing in pure black and white, there are no color adjustment options.
Printing in color
You can adjust the colors of your print under Windows:
ENWW
Color-adjustment options
85