Color Calibration and Profiling

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Calibrate Your Digital Camera
Calibrating monitors, printers, and scanners helps yield more consistent color between all these devices. However, it may never have occurred to you that calibrating your digital camera can also produce more reliable color matching.

Calibrate Your Scanner
If you have trouble getting scans that look right, the problem may not be with your scanning technique. Calibrating your scanner can go a long way toward insuring that what you scan and what you see on-screen and what you print are all the same. Scanner calibration goes along with monitor and printer calibration to help get the best color match possible from three very different devices.

Calibrate Your Printer
Calibrating your printer insures that what you print is consistent with what you see on-screen. The two go hand in hand.

Calibrate Your Monitor
The way images look on screen is different from the way they look in print. Calibrating your monitor provides a screen display that simulates what you would see on paper.