Calibrating Your System

Calibration allows you to match your scanner and your output device so you can reproduce color images that are very close to the originals.

because monitors use a different method to display color images than printers use to print them, images look different when displayed than when printed. Also, each output device may produce different printed results. For example, an image printed on an electronic color printer looks dramatically different when printed on a printing press.

EPSON Scan! II calibrates your scanner with your monitor, application, and printer by analyzing the results of a calibration sample at each stage of the process. The basic calibration process consists of:

il Calibrating your monitor to your scanner

0 Enabling screen calibration

Cl Exporting a calibration chart to your application

Ll 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 monitor to your scanner:

1.Select EPSON Scan! II in the EPSON Scanner program group or folder.

2.Choose Screen Calibration from the Calibrate menu.

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