User Guide

Microtek RDC Software Documentation

Subject: ScanWizard Pro Color Management Page 11

dumped to the monitor without monitor compensation. In other

words, they don’t have standard color matching mechanism to

ensure color consistency across devices.

Adobe Photoshop 4.0 or earlier is a good example of a non-

ColorSync–savvy application.

In the Color Matching Setup dialog box of ScanWizard Pro,

you will need to do the following:

Ø Display Using Monitor Compensation: Off

If this box is checked, display of image data is

“compensated”, resulting in a difference between the image

shown in the Preview Window of ScanWizard Pro from the

image that is delivered to your image-editing application.

Ø RGB Color Matching: On

Even for non-ColorSync-savvy applications, you still need

ScanWizard Pro to perform color matching to deliver good

image quality.

Ø Embed ICC Destination Profile In Scan Image: On

You may leave this box on. You should only turn off this

check box if your application can not read or handle

embedded ICC profile data.

Ø RGB Destination: Your Desired Color Profile

Choose your desired color space in which the application

wishes to work. In many cases, you can select your monitor

profile or the sRGB profile, will usually provide satisfactory

results.

Unlike working with ColorSync-savvy application, do not

choose Scanner RGB.

3 Using 3

Party Profilers

To get the best results, we recommend you use MSP and

ScanWizard Pro to perform color matching for you. However, if

you prefer, you may use 3

party profilers (e.g. Monaco and

PraxiSoft) to profile your scanner. You must be very careful with

some settings of the ScanWizard Pro in order to get the correct

results. Especially, you can not use any image processing functions

to alter images (e.g. in the Advanced Image Correction dialog box.)

The rule of thumb is to always make sure the settings of

scan-to-profile (for your profiler) are exactly the same as scan-to-

apply-profile (in your image editing or page layout application.)

Otherwise, the results will not be correct.

The profiling process usually is divided into two steps:

scanning target and profiling.