Owner`s manual

Page 20, Data Sheet 4020, rev: Saturday, October 06, 2007
The slider-bar adjustments can only be set to a maximum
of 25 units. Because we chose to use the ―ColorMatch
RGB‖ working space, the 25 units of adjustment will
probably be acceptable for almost any type/brand of paper
that you might want to use. However, sometimes—
depending on a lot of different variables—the 25 units of
adjustment might not be enough for the BRIGHTNESS
setting (depending on how you set the Adobe Gamma
setting when we first started this calibration procedure). If
you find that you have reached the limit of the 25 units of
BRIGHTNESS control and the print still does not match
the image on the monitor screen for overall DENSITY,
then go back to CONTROL PANEL and re-open Adobe
Gamma and make a small tweaking change in the slider
bar to cause the image on the monitor screen to become a
little lighter or darker (whichever adjustment you need to
better match your print). Then, continue making test prints
and making fine-tuning adjustments of the slider bars.
If you feel that you need more than the 25 units of
adjustability for the color settings, you are doing
something very wrong. Stop and go back and review the
steps.
While you can get very close to a perfectly neutral B&W
image following these steps, you will probably never be
able to get real perfection. Get as close as you can. Then,
when you switch from printing a B&W image (all be it the
image is set to RGB mode) to a real color image, the
selection of slider bar positions will render the color
image a near-perfect match for the image on the monitor.
If you really want to print a B&W image…. Then there
are some procedures outlined below for that. We only use
a B&W image (set to RGB mode) as a test image for
calibrating color.
About Using Different Papers
I suggest that you choose one or two types of paper,
calibrate for them, and stick with them, since every
different type/brand of paper will need slightly different
calibration settings.
As a hedge against a computer crash that might cause the
settings to be lost, you might want to write them down
some place. I use NOTEPAD and create a tiny little
“readMe‖ file in which I record the exact settings that I
wind up using. That way, if my C: drive ever crashes, and
I lose these settings, I can easily re-create them from my
ReadMe file that I always store OFF of the C: drive. If
you don’t have a second (or third) hard drive on your
computer… ADD them sooner rather than later!! Store
ALL of your data files OFF of your C: drive. The only
thing on the C: drive should be the operating system and
your applications (such as Photoshop).
Any other combination of paper and ink (such as
archival ink & paper… or a different brand of
paper… or a different brand of ink...) will require a
different calibration set-up… which I would give a
different name, so that I can always select the correct
settings for whatever paper and ink combination that
I happen to want to use.
Printing B&W Images
First, within PhotoShop, be sure that the ―MODE‖ of the
image is set to GRAYSCALE.
Be sure that you have adjusted your B&W image to look
the way you want it to look on the monitor screen. Now,
the next job is to adjust the printer driver controls to
reproduce what you have on the monitor screen. You do
NOT want to make any further adjustments to Adobe
Gamma because if you do, that will alter the way your
color prints are handled. You’ve already set things up for
correct color printing.
Take a B&W test image… any B&W image will do as
long as it has a nice distribution of tone values… and is
not a hi-key or a low-key image. Just a nice, average
B&W image will do nicely.
Be sure that the B&W image is set to GRAYSCALE
mode (not to RGB mode as we did above with the B&W
image that we were using to calibrate the color slider
bars).
Next,, in Adobe Photoshop, go to FILLE to PRINT
WITH PREVIEW
Follow the steps on Pages 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, & 19.