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Calibrating Your System

Sometimes the colors of your original image do not match the

colors you see on your screen and in the final printed output.

This is because of the different color processes your scanner,

monitor, and printer use to produce color.

The scanner and the monitor both create a range of colors by

adding red, green, and blue in different proportions and

intensities (an additive color process). Printers, on the other

hand, produce colors by combining cyan (C), magenta (M),

yellow (Y), and black (K) inks (CMYK) to create the desired

hues. This is a subtractive color process.

When you print a scanned image, the image goes through both

the additive and subtractive interpretive processes to acquire

color-the first when it is scanned, and the second when it is

printed on your color printer. As a result, the printed colors

may not match the colors in the original.

Calibration allows you to fine-tune your scanner, monitor, and

printer to produce colors that are very close to those in the

originals. Use the procedures in this chapter to:

Calibrate your monitor to your scanner

Calibrate your printer to your scanner

Use the calibration profiles when you scan an image.

Calibrating Your Monitor to Your Scanner

To calibrate your monitor, you first need to perform a screen

calibration using EPSON Scan! II and then enable screen

calibration in TWAIN.

Calibrating Your System

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Epson ES-300C User's Guide Page 15