Joshua Weisberg dives into profiles, explaining profile types and differences, profile installation, native color space, and printing a target file that will create profiles for your printer.
Understanding Color Profiles in Windows XP
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in this case: warning, this “article” is a teaser ad for a poorly written book.
It’s not even about “understanding” color profiles. It’s about how to get someone else to provide you a profile for a printer.
And for that it misses even the simple stuff like: you don’t have to wait for drift to want multiple profiles for a given printer. different modes, densities, and ink/paper combinations will give different color profiles, especially on low end consumer printers.
Monitor profiles don’t even work correctly in XP. My XP changes the profiles of my monitors almost every time I reboot. Usually it just swaps the profiles of my two monitors, but sometimes it switches to some other profiles and sometimes it even corrupts a profile that it used before rebooting. Often when I go to the “Color management” tab in the monitor properties it shows the wrong display at “Current monitor”, but other times it shows the correct one. The whole thing is so buggy it’s a PITA to the point of being completely unusable. 🙁
Maybe they should licence ColorSync from Apple… and then they can get something that actually works.
IMHO
Jb