Originally posted by nuts
Hi roygoh,
I own a Canon S800 and have tried the Kodak PPP but could not get accurate colours. Tried tuning the driver settings as recommended by some pple in dpreview but still not good. What is this profile that u are using and can share? Thanks!
Oh, yes, Canon PPP is wonderfully painless to get good prints, except on the pocket....
..NuTs..
The reason you cannot get satisfactory results by just tuning the colour setting in the driver is because the driver colour adjustment is too simple. Colour profiles are done by people with the right equipment, namely, the printer, a scanner, and the paper that he/she is generating the profile for.
I am not too sure of the details, but what I have been reading, I gathered that the process involves printing a special test pattern of different colour stripes with varying intensity on the target paper, and than scanning the print and use a special software to compare the scanned print against the original file. The result is a colour profile for the printer and that particular paper that can be used by the printer driver to fine tune the colours.
Imagine having individual curve control for each of the colours separately. You end up having a custom colour profile for the printer/paper combination that is simply not achievable no mater how you tweak the sliders in the driver.
Trust me. I've gone through more than 20 pieces of the Kodak paper over the weekend, trying to tweak the colours myself. When I got to best that I could get, the results are still a long way from what the colour profile can deliver. If I had read about the profiles last Friday, I would have saved myself a lot of time, paper and ink.
Having said all that, I am not sure if it is applicable to the S800. The profiles are created by a Joe Barnhart, and you can download them from his website at
http://wandb.com/icc.htm.
I suggest you check your user manual as well as Canon's website to see if the S900/9000 profiles can be used for S800.
The installation steps are simple, but I would like to have you check on the suitability before we talk further on this.