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Creating a printer profile with i1Pro
From the course: Learning Color Management
Creating a printer profile with i1Pro
Now it's time to take a look at some of the high end capabilities of the i1Profiler software combined with i1 Pro 2 spectrophotometer. . Now you can see over here on the left. It can do monitors, projectors, printers, and even scanners. We're talking about printers today. Now there's two different modes in this software over on the right hand side here. You see Basic and Advanced. Well Basic would be very similar to what we just saw with the color monkey photos, so let's move on to Advanced and take advantage of what the system can do. We click on Advanced, we get a whole new set of menus. Again, we have the Epson stylus C88 here. This is a fairly low-end office type printer, but you'd be amazed how good these prints can be if you've got an accurate profile for them. So we choose the printer, and we're going to go to profile. Our first thing offered is, well, how many patches do you want? And you can get an absolutely crazy amount of patches, 6000 patches. Keep in mind, this would…
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Choosing the best printer4m 37s
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Exploring the benefits of custom printer profiles3m 29s
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Comparing factory printer profiles to real-world printer profiles5m 31s
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Creating a printer profile with ColorMunki Photo5m 45s
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Creating a printer profile with i1Pro5m 13s
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Understanding color gamut and rendering intents3m 20s
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Soft proofing images in Photoshop6m 18s
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Getting prints that match the image in the soft proof3m 4s
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Soft proofing for lab printing and for the web3m 41s
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Soft proofing in Lightroom and other raw processing applications6m 16s
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Choosing the right fine-art paper7m
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