Colour management?

[Gilgamesh]

So good to see it spelt the English way! 

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

So good to see it spelt the English way! 

But colour management only works on that side of the pond. 

[Lundberg02]

It sure is iffy over here.  Nothing I have done has changed in my print workflow I print from ProPhoto thru Photoshop with all the same Epson settings I've always used, but suddenly a scanned jpg is dark and less saturated thahn the original but looks fine on the screen. No clue. Same flow, same printer, same Photoshop, same paper.  Kept screwing around until I got a reasonable facsimile. (I think that's what everyone secretly does).

[Doug Gray]

It sure is iffy over here.  Nothing I have done has changed in my print workflow I print from ProPhoto thru Photoshop with all the same Epson settings I've always used, but suddenly a scanned jpg is dark and less saturated thahn the original but looks fine on the screen. No clue. Same flow, same printer, same Photoshop, same paper.  Kept screwing around until I got a reasonable facsimile. (I think that's what everyone secretly does).

Well, that's what I did over 10 years ago. Then I bit the bullet and got an I1 Pro and Profile Maker 5. I never tweak anything other than a very slight adjustment to monitor xy cords so that my LED monitor matches my CFL monitor which matches paper white with proof view and a 5000K illuminant (close to but not quite D50). This is a subtle effect but each individual can have slight variations in their eye's color matching functions from the standard CIE functions. Mostly, this affects monitors due to their light's spikey nature. Once done I've had good matches on both monitors and all papers except those with OBAs when uV is uncontrolled.

[digitaldog]

Gray!~

[Lundberg02]

I have an i1Display Pro, but calibration doesn't seem to be the problem. The original was a halftone. Scanning it produced a monitor image that looked very close to the original, but my normal proofing print was way off. Something changed but I can't figure out what.

[Lundberg02]

Luckiy the scan was saved as a tif, so I used Adobe Color Print Utility to print it and it matches the monitor, which matched the original halftone. So somekind of double color management is going on, but I verified the printer color management was off and printed from Photoshop with all my usual settings. WTF?
WTF indeed, It didn't match the monitor and is still dark and unsaturated. It's just this one scan that won't print right.

[Lundberg02]

More annals of WTF. My printer stopped printing, so I went to the print queue and it said "Stopped-filter failed". Had never seen this error before. Luckily google is your friend and it said to delete printer and re-add.  Since then my normal print workflow has been restored and the problem image is printing just the way it should.