What should be the calibration of the printer

Proper calibration of the printer involves creating a working profile created for a particular printer, cartridge, and paper. Accordingly, if we want to replace one of the components with another, then the whole process will have to start from the very beginning. The pleasant news is that any devices intended for printing files are subject to calibration. And we are completely uninteresting whether they recognize working profiles, whether they are connected to our computer ... The main thing is that the device has the ability to receive digital graphic files.

It should be noted that the calibration of the printer is a process extremely similar to the setting of the monitor. Although in terms of practical implementation, they are slightly different. Let's return, however, to the main thing.

The first thing to say about this. Setting a black point, like, actually, white, does not make sense for a print. The fact is that the first is set not only by the properties of the selected paper, but also by the dye. While the former is solely the reflective power of paper. In addition, the calibration of the printer has nothing to do with the notion of color temperature, since it does not in any way apply to surface coloring. But to the properties of radiation - please.

To implement a competent configuration, we will need to print a test file. It contains a considerable number of fields, painted in all colors of the rainbow. The next stage is the measurement of each of them by a special device, which is called the calibrator. This process helps to get feedback for the tuning program. Comparing the source and received color values, you can create an ICC profile. It will fully match the current ink combination of the printer and paper.

Another important point. It is important to understand that our calibration of the printer (hp, for example) is color management using a profile that is hardware-generated. Therefore, all other methods used for the same purpose should be disabled! It is very easy to do this. Go to the driver settings of our device and put something like "No color management" or "No color adjustment" ("Do not use color management" or "Do not use color adjustment"). Please note: the name of this item may differ from one device to another. Therefore, if you are calibrating the Canon printer, it's not a fact that you'll find the above options in the settings.

At the next stage, events develop as follows. In the case when the printer connected to our PC is calibrated, when sending photos or other graphic files to the printer, simply apply the created profile. Believe me, this is very easy: activate the option "print" and carefully read the available options for action. This option seems to be the most simple, when it comes to printing from ACDSee or Photoshop. Although it must be recognized that with any other applications the sequence of actions is similar. Of course, provided that the required option is generally supported by them.