Calibrating my monitor

[sailor025]

How do I calibrate my monitor? I have a Samsung SyncMaster 753DF monitor, an HP Photosmart 7550 printer and I use Adobe Photoshop 6.0.

I have a photo I want to print. On the monitor, it looks perfect but when I print it, it is considerably darker. What do I do?

rodney

 

[Dee]

Rodney...there's something called Colovision Spyder. That's supposed to be the bee's knees for calibrating your monitor.

 

[ReyeR]

The Spyders are good and if you can afford one get it. If you don't want to spend that much money then use Adobe Gamma. To give you an idea, here's a guide by Epson Australia - you might find one for HP:

ftp://ftp.epson.com.au/pub/epson/Drivers/ICMprofiles/EPSON_Australia_RGB_Printing_Guide.pdf

 

[Rooster]

Adobe Gamma should have been loaded to your computer when you installed photoshop. Go to your windows control panel and click on the Adobe Gamma icon

 

[James connell]

probably the single biggest change you can make to match printer output to what you see on the screen is to change your monitor to a 6500 deg white point. monitors for the PC usualy come with the whitepoint set at 9500 - it gives very vivid whites but a print in sunlight won't match it.

as mentioned in another post adobe gama gives good results. setting up PS is nessasary too. the exact method depends on what version you use - i MUCH prefer PS6 to 7, 7s a pain as far as printer settings.(at least it is until i figure out a short cut ).

other setup programs are available and some may be easier to use for you than adobe gama. i'v not found it cost effective to buy a hardware ICCer "yet".
a search for ICC color on the wab will give you a few ideas also.

 

[norcaldiver]

I'm not familiar with your monitor and am too lazy to look it up on the web right now, but after I set the monitor with Gamma wizard, I'll print out the picture or a pcture with a lot of color (like a color wheel) and hold it up to the monitor while playing with the bright/contrast/tint/everything else on the physical monitor controls.

You problem is actually opposite of what I usually run into here at work. The monitor looks great, but the print looks all washed out because they turn the brightness down because it hurts their eyes...meh...

 

[jiveturkey]

Dee once bubbled...
Rodney...there's something called Colovision Spyder. That's supposed to be the bee's knees for calibrating your monitor.

"Bee's knees". I haven't herad that one in a long time. Dee you're not a hippie are ya? :rasta: