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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Printing: Printers, Papers and Inks => Topic started by: Endeavour on May 26, 2017, 08:51:28 am
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With everything else being equal, on a calibrated monitor with custom paper profiles:
Is there a general consensus on whether to let an application (Photoshop or Capture One) manage the colours or let the printer/driver manage the colours for prints?
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Unquestionably, application managed. There are some that may say printer managed for B and W, but always application managed as a rule. Custom profiles generated from the embedded Spectrophotometer, installed by utility. It's pretty much the way to go, and how most with Z's do it.
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With everything else being equal, on a calibrated monitor with custom paper profiles:
Is there a general consensus on whether to let an application (Photoshop or Capture One) manage the colours or let the printer/driver manage the colours for prints?
Get familiar with application controlled color management for your Z3200. I do that with Qimage Ultimate. Make sure the HP driver default is set for application controlled color management, that can be done in Devices Printers on Windows, there will be something similar on the Mac. That way there is less chance it falls back to Printer controlled color management. The choices of RGB color spaces assigned to the images are less limited with application controlled CM than when the driver is used, so are rendering choices. The Z3200 can deliver you custom profiles for third party papers, gloss enhancer applied and without.
Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst
http://www.pigment-print.com/spectralplots/spectrumviz_1.htm
March 2017 update, 750+ inkjet media white spectral plots
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Unquestionably, application managed. There are some that may say printer managed for B and W, but always application managed as a rule. Custom profiles generated from the embedded Spectrophotometer, installed by utility. It's pretty much the way to go, and how most with Z's do it.
Thanks Mark