Printer using monitor profile?

[barry_needle]

Re. my earlier post on Epson 2100 profiles (Thanks Peter and Beau for

your valued advice):

 

I have now exhausted all possible setting and profile combinations in

both Photoshop and the Epson driver, and have settled on the

following set-up which is giving excellent results. (A disclaimer

here folks - I'm no expert, and this is based purely on my own trial

and error and what works best for me!).

 

Image source space: Adobe RGB'98 / Photoshop set to Printer Colour

Management / My own Adobe-Gamma produced monitor profile as the

printer default / Epson driver set to ICM.

 

Of all the profiles I tried in my 2100 printer (including Epson

individual paper profiles), three in particular provided a very good

monitor to print match. These were: Adobe RGB98; EE177-1 (Epson's

standard) and my own monitor profile. For critical comparison, I used

a Lyson produced test print (containing both pictures and colour

patches) in conjunction with the downloadable jpeg from which the

print was made. There were VERY SLIGHT, but acceptable, differences

between the three (mainly to saturation rather than colour balance),

with my monitor profile giving the best match of all (unorthodox

maybe, but what the heck!) and EE177-1 running a close second. I

still cannot fathom the magenta shift I get from the Epson paper

profile, but for the sake of my sanity, I will leave that puzzle for

another day! (Other details: Epson Archival Matt paper and inks;

Photoshop 7; PC).

 

Why then, is it not good to use a Monitor Profile in the printer?

 

Thanks,

 

Barry.

[andrew_rodney1]

-->Why then, is it not good to use a Monitor Profile in the printer?

 

No, you're simply sending monitor RGB to the printer (Adobe RGB (1998) to monitor RGB)

and you probably have the driver set to something like Automatic (which would behave OK

with a color space like monitor RGB/ColorMatch RGB.

 

When you select a real printer profile in Print with Preview after you click OK and get the

actual Epson driver, that driver should be set to No Color Adjustment (since that's usually

how the profiles were original built with that setting).

[rob_sronce]

This helped me to understand:

 

http://www.normankoren.com/color_management.html

 

Go down the page to "Color management basics" and look at the diagram.