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Exploring paper profiles

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Exploring paper profiles

So my monitor is profiled now. That's only the first half of the color management process, and I don't actually know yet if the monitor profile I've got is really right. The Spyder software gave me some ideas about it, but I need to test it out in a full color management workflow before I decide if maybe I need to go back and do another monitor profile. So I need to move on to the second half of my profiling process, which is to be sure that I've got profiles installed for my printer, more specifically for the printer and the specific type of paper that I want to print on. You can't simply profile the printer, you have to have separate profiles for every type of paper that you want to print on. There are few different ways of getting those. First of all, when you install your printer driver software it should install a whole bunch of paper profiles for you. So, for example, Epson, this is an R2880 that we have back here. When I install the driver it installs ICC profiles for all of…

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