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Jon,
Although everything you say is true, I suspect for the application this
person has, your solution is somewhat of an overkill, both financially
and technically.
Although I use Photoshop, it is over a $500 program. Even PS Elements
is about $100. Now as an Adobe stockholder, I love for people to buy
these, but they aren't required for someone who is making his own CD
album covers on an inkjet printer.
I also suspect that an outsider could produce a reasonable result for
him using his files even without calibration.
I'm not being critical of you, because in the professional world there
is an expectation of calibrated open loop systems. But I've worked in
color photo labs where we ran, among other things, one hour type lab
equipment, and although it was calibrated, and we used "channels" for
different film stocks, we were regularly having to deal with old film,
odd brands of film, heat damage, odd lighting, and such and we managed
to guess pretty closely a great deal of the time. Today, with the
ability digital allows for, even a non-calibrated system can produce
reasonable output as long as the person has some sense of color theory.
In fact, if this person has a scanner it probably came with some image
manipulation software for color correction. Even if the image looks
"wrong" on the screen, with a little experimentation, he can probably
get the image to print fairly correctly... in his case, since it prints
too green, bring down the cyan and yellow and bring the magenta up so
the image looks too magenta (pink) and it may print correctly.
It's not a perfect answer, by any means, but for someone on a very tight
budget, or who will only do something like this once or twice a year, it
can do.
Again, once one gets a couple if good prints it may be cheaper to take
those down to the color photocopy place and get a batch printed that way
on card stock, depending on cost of ink and paper for the inkjet.
Art
Jon O'Brien wrote:
> In article <3786e20c.0409182337.4b9d400b@posting.google.com>,
> psongman@hotmail.com (psongman) wrote:
>
>
>>I was trying to print out some CD covers for my new CD and all my pics
>>in Microsoft Word came out greenish, though the jpegs, show brownish hue
>
>
> Word doesn't have a colour management system, so it's going to be very
> difficult to achieve what you want using it.
>
> You really need to calibrate your complete workflow - your scanner, if you
> use one, monitor and printer/paper combination - and to use something like
> Photoshop or (better still) QImage to print from. Only then can you be
> sure of getting the result you want.
>
> Even if you get someone else to print them for you, your system's lack of
> calibration may mean that the files you provide won't print anything like
> they appear on your system.
>
> Jon.