Variety Of Printings; Using Color Management; Color Management - Epson STYLUS PRO Series Driver Manual

Mac OS X Leopard Printer Driver Guide

Variety of Printings

Using Color
Management
The printer driver provides a setting for
performing color management to printing data
and a color adjustment that produces better
looking prints by using only the printer driver.
Color adjustment is performed without adjusting
the color of the original data.
See "Methods for color management" on page
15.

Color management

About color management system
(CMS)
Since devices such as a digital camera, scanner,
monitor, or printer produce color differently, the
printing result looks different from the image you
see on the display. To adjust the color between
devices, use the color management system. Both
Windows and Mac OS X have a color
management system as their standard feature.
Also, some image editing software support the
color management system.
Each operating system supports the color
management system, such as ICM for Windows
and ColorSync for Mac OS. When performing
color management using the printer driver, the
color management system of the operating
system is also used. In this color management
system, a color definition file called the ICC
profile is used for performing color matching
between devices. The ICC profile is prepared for
each printer model and each media type. For a
digital camera, the color domain of sRGB,
AdobeRGB, etc., may be specified as the profile.
In color management, the profile of an input
device is called an input profile (or source
profile), and an output device, such as a printer, is
called a printer profile (or output profile).
Note:
When you print an image taken by a digital camera or
scanner, usually the printing result looks different
from what you see on the display. This variance
occurs because each device such as a digital camera,
scanner, monitor, or printer, produces colors
differently. In order to reduce the differences in color
between each device, please perform color
management between each device.
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