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<p>Put it back to factory settings. Load a step wedge grayramp in a non-color managed app like a browser and adjust brightness/contrast so your highlights above 240 RGB don't blow out to white and the black step is distinguishable from the step next to it. </p>

<p>Drag and drop the step wedge grayramp below and make sure you see the number '9''s in the white section when adjusting contrast/brightness. Have a white page open and set brightness to the brightness of your printer paper white under lights you view your prints for a match to your display, <strong>not the brightness of your prints you hang on your wall or what you see in your gallery if applicable.</strong></p>

<p>Calibrate with the Xrite CM using settings I suggested. Try it using native 2.2 gamma to see how off your native state is from 2.2. Most likely you won't see a difference. Try it the other way using target 2.2 to compare against in the "Before and After" section of CM.</p><div>00bpCe-541341684.jpg.06beb688206e1696ff28bfa229d9e578.jpg</div>

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<p>Thanks. I'm on the road right now, but I'll give that a try when I get home. On my little laptop, which I also calibrated with ColorMunki, I can see all the shades of gray and barely see the 9s when viewing in non-color managed IE 10. I very seldom print anything so that's not a player.</p>
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<p>@<strong>Eric</strong>: Great link. That piece was written in 2004. Do you (or others who have read it) believe that it's still valid or are there more recent descriptions that take into account whatever changes in technology may have happened since 2004?</p>
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<p>I don't know if anyone is still reading this thread, but, if you are, here is a good example of the importance of following directions. I left my monitor set on Adobe RGB even though ColorMunki said to reset it to factory defaults and I got a slight pink tint in some of the grays. When I recalibrated from factory defaults the pink went away. Funny how that works.</p>
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<p>@<strong>Eric</strong>: Great link. That piece was written in 2004. Do you (or others who have read it) believe that it's still valid or are there more recent descriptions that take into account whatever changes in technology may have happened since 2004?</p>

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I think so! i don't do a ton of printing anymore and certainly PS has added a few features since 2004, but the paradigms in this white paper are still the same.</p>

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<p>That piece was written in 2004. Do you (or others who have read it) believe that it's still valid or are there more recent descriptions that take into account whatever changes in technology may have happened since 2004?</p>

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Up to page 12, not much but the Print dialog in Photoshop has changed considerably since then. Some options like <em>No Color Management</em> are gone, Adobe updated setting to control ColorSync on Mac using private API's (it actually makes setting this easier) and of course there's Lightroom in the mix. </p>

Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management" (pluralsight.com)

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