[filmscanners] Re: Colormatching with Canon S820/S900

["ThomasH" <herthh@attbi.com>]

bobkehl@kvernkehl.com wrote:
>
> With the help of the filmscanners group I've spent about 200 man-hours
> tweaking the color management profile in my Epson 2000P last year.  Much
> thanks to all for your direction and encouragement in that seemingly endless
> trial.!   No, seriously.  If it wasn't for input from this grouip I wouldn't
> have known what to tweak.  I can now scan and print images that very closely
> match my calibrated monitor.  Now that I am a experienced in tweaking for
> color amnagement, I've learned that I'd rather not do it again.  As was
> stated on this list at that time, "Epson's colour management driver seems to
> be broke".

I could just use your text for my own experience report while replacing
the word "Epson" with "Nikon". The soultion to the "color dilemma" is
Vuescan. Try it, the "color tweak" will terminate.

Thomnas.

>
> I'm considering upgrading to a Canon S9000 or the like.  Does anyone have
> any experience with Canon's new printers?  Is Canon's color management any
> better than Epson?  Can I buy a new S820, S900 or S9000 and just plug them
> in load the factory supplied color profile and have it match?
>
> Any comments appreciated.
>
> Bob Kehl
>

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