Printer Color Management - Update please?

[Bill in WV]

In the home page article: Unserstanding Printer Color Management, a brief but highly informative article that may have saved my sanity after I read it the third time, I was very carefully missing a couple of simple but critical steps, my life and my color prints have improved immensely. Michael recommends the book Mastering Digital Printing by Harald Johnson as a definitive source on the subject. That was in 2004, my question is, is that still current? Is that still the best book or has it been superceded in subsequent years?

[DarkPenguin]

http://www.photo-i.co.uk/Reviews/books/MDP/HJMDP.htm

[Bill in WV]

http://www.photo-i.co.uk/Reviews/books/MDP/HJMDP.htm
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Thanks DarkPenguin,

Pretty good review. I'll take a chance. It's just been ordered..  I didn't doubt Michael for a moment, I was just checking for updates. Apparently none have appeared. Of course, I only gave people about 20 minutes to reply.

Bill in WV

[Mark D Segal]

This advice comes a bit later than 20 minutes after your request, however..........three other books that also have excellent material regarding colour management are Color Confidence by Tim Grey, Real World Color Management by Fraser, Murphy and Bunting and Real World Photoshop CS2 by Fraser and Blatner (which is just about everything you ever wanted to know about using Photoshop - all 900+ pages of it!). The Epson "On Line Experience" also provides tutorials that are compact, basic and useful. Many people also highly recommend Andrew Rodney's book on colour management for photographers - I don't have that one yet (sorry Andrew - my loss) so can't speak from first-hand knowledge of that one. The good thing about having a variety of sources, despite the inevitable repetition, is that they all still manage to have different stuff, look at things from different ways, and give you quite a well-rounded perspective on the topics of interest. There's no such thing as only one way to do or think about anything in Photoshop.

[Hermie]

In the home page article: Unserstanding Printer Color Management, a brief but highly informative article that may have saved my sanity after I read it the third time, I was very carefully missing a couple of simple but critical steps, my life and my color prints have improved immensely. Michael recommends the book Mastering Digital Printing by Harald Johnson as a definitive source on the subject. That was in 2004, my question is, is that still current? Is that still the best book or has it been superceded in subsequent years?
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See this post on RG:
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Herman

[Tenner]

See this post on RG:
http://forums.robgalbraith.com/showflat.ph...true#Post408728

Herman
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Thank you for the link Herman, but unfortunately 'access denied' to that Pro-site.

[Mark D Segal]

This is the link you want to get into archived material on the former Rob Galbraith Forums site. The Forum has been concessioned-out to new managers and it has been made difficult to acces their "for free" material unless you know this link:

http://www.prophotocommunity.com/ubbthread.../ubbthreads.php

[Hermie]

Thank you for the link Herman, but unfortunately 'access denied' to that Pro-site.
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This is the updated link:
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Herman