I'm new here (warning!). I have the 7960 just a few days, and I like it over my previous 7350.
I'm trying to learn more about color management, and more importantly: how to print images so that they turn out at their best. I have found a piece of software called "qimage" that makes sure that the image prepared the best way for printing (making sure it has the correct resolution, so the driver doesn't have to interpolate etc). It also supports colormanagement, and that is what made discover this webpage. When I played/fooled around with it, it made the photo's appear way too colorfull. Cool to look at, but not realistic.
The new driver (5.1 for windows) has colormanagement support built in. I now have everything set to srgb, and am letting the driver manage the colors. But there is an article on the HP website (which I didn't know existed, but I found the link on this website):
It describes in some detail how to work with colormanagement with this printer. I have just discovered this, so haven't tried it out yet. It states that setting the colorspace to ICM in the driver completely turns of colormanagement by the driver, and let's the other software handle the colormanagement. In photoshop you select an ICC profile supplied by HP (that is correct for the paper/settings you use) and then it should work like you expect it too.
I have no experience with colormanagement whatsoever, so I hope you could post your results here. That way I can learn something too :)
Color Issue With HP 7660/7760/7960
in The Digital Darkroom: Process, Technique & Printing
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Hi,
I'm new here (warning!). I have the 7960 just a few days, and I like it over my previous 7350.
I'm trying to learn more about color management, and more importantly: how to print images so that they turn out at their best. I have found a piece of software called "qimage" that makes sure that the image prepared the best way for printing (making sure it has the correct resolution, so the driver doesn't have to interpolate etc). It also supports colormanagement, and that is what made discover this webpage. When I played/fooled around with it, it made the photo's appear way too colorfull. Cool to look at, but not realistic.
The new driver (5.1 for windows) has colormanagement support built in. I now have everything set to srgb, and am letting the driver manage the colors. But there is an article on the HP website (which I didn't know existed, but I found the link on this website):
http://h20015.www2.hp.com/hub_search/document.jhtml?lc=en&docName=c00063336&prodId=hpphotosma305383&cc=us
It describes in some detail how to work with colormanagement with this printer. I have just discovered this, so haven't tried it out yet. It states that setting the colorspace to ICM in the driver completely turns of colormanagement by the driver, and let's the other software handle the colormanagement. In photoshop you select an ICC profile supplied by HP (that is correct for the paper/settings you use) and then it should work like you expect it too.
I have no experience with colormanagement whatsoever, so I hope you could post your results here. That way I can learn something too :)