Calibrating Your System
Calibration allows you to match your scanner and your output device so that you can reproduce images that are very close to the original.
Monitors use a different technology than printers, so images look different on the monitor than when they are printed. Also, each output device may produce different results. A proof printed on an electronic color printer will look different from the same image printed on a printing press. EPSON Scan! II calibrates your scanner with your application and your printer by analyzing the results of a calibration sample at each stage of the process.
The basic calibration process consists of the following procedures:Cl Calibrating your monitor to your scannerLI Enabling screen calibrationQExporting a calibration chart to your application CI Creating calibration profiles for your printers D Scanning using the calibration profile.
These procedures are described in the following sections.Calibrating your monitor to your scanner
Follow these steps to calibrate your scanner and monitor:1.From the Program Manager,
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