QPCC Instruction Night - 21/02/2012 [Revised 26/12/14]
PRINTING COLOUR AND B&W USING THE EPSON R2880 PRINTER
1 First Things First
1.1 Monitor Calibration
Do this first as any image editing carried out before calibrating your monitor is likely to
produce inaccurate results. Two simple things to remember:-
• If your monitor is too bright, your prints will look too dark.
• If your monitor is too dark, your prints will look too light.
Brightness is only one aspect of monitor calibration which also controls colour balance, contrast etc.
but one of the biggest problems encountered when printing is that the prints come out too dark due
to processing on a monitor which is too bright.
Calibrate your monitor regularly to ensure that you get accurate and consistent results when printing.
The club has two Spyder 3 monitor calibration devices for hire at a modest fee.
1.2 Photoshop Colour Settings
NB: On opening your image in Photoshop, if you have previously edited it using a different working
space colour setting, you will be asked if you wish to retain, change or discard the embedded settings.
Always choose to retain the embedded settings or the colour profile of your image will be changed.
Working space colour settings should normally be Adobe RGB or ProPhoto RGB. I prefer the latter.
To adjust the working space settings and colour management policies select Edit > Colour Settings
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