Epson Perfection 3200 Quick start guide

PMA Preview Edition
for EPSON Scanners and Printers
Color Managed Workflow

PMA Preview Edition
for EPSON®Scanners and Printers
Color Managed Workflow

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Contents
The Art and Science of Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Profiling Your Scanner and Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Printing the Printer Profiling Target . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Preparing the Printer and Scanner Targets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Scanning the Targets with SilverFast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Building the Scanner and Printer Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Building Additional Printer Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Printing the Printer Target from Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Printing the Printer Target from Adobe Photoshop 7.0.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Preparing the Targets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Building a Scanner Profile for Transparencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Scanning the Transparency Target . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Building the Scanner Transparency Profile in MonacoEZcolor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Building a Display Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Configuring Color Management in Your Host Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Configuring Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Configuring Adobe Photoshop 7.0.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Scanning with LaserSoft SilverFast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Reflective Scanning with SilverFast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Transparency Scanning with SilverFast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Using Color Management with Your EPSON Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Using the Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

The EPSON Perfection®3200 scanner and
your EPSON®photo printer form an ideal
system for reproducing photography and fine art.
With these outstanding tools, you expect the
highest quality color output. That’s why we’ve
created this booklet. It gives you all the tips and
techniques you need to optimize color on your
EPSON system.
Monitors, scanners, and printers each use different
technologies to reproduce color. Different color
technologies mean that the devices have different
color ranges or gamuts. Each one can produce
certain colors that the others can’t.
The good news is that a color-managed workflow
can help you match colors as closely as possible.
By following the instructions in this booklet, you
can achieve effective color reproduction using
your EPSON Perfection 3200 scanner and
EPSON photo printer.
The Art and Science of Color
Each device in your computer system has a
different color “language.” Color management
translates these languages into a universal form
of communication, or device-independent color
model. By using a common language, a color-
managed workflow lets you convert an image
from one color model to another.
Profiles describe the color gamut of various
devices and the color space of individual images.
With the information in profiles, color management
tools determine the best method for “mapping”
out-of-gamut colors. The result is that you get
consistent, predictable color reproduction.
This booklet provides you with the step-by step
instructions you need to create accurate profiles
for your scanner, monitor, and printer.
All the components you need to build a color-
managed workflow are included in the EPSON
Perfection 3200 Pro software bundle:
MonacoEZcolor offers an easy, effective
means of building profiles for your scanner,
printer, and monitor.
LaserSoft®SilverFast®provides powerful tools
to deliver great scans that need little or no
correction after scanning.
Adobe®Photoshop®Elements 2.0 lets you
manipulate your images until they’re just
right, then hand off the color correctly to
your EPSON printer.
In this booklet, we’ll walk you through the
process of building the profiles you need,
configuring SilverFast to pass the color along
to Adobe Photoshop Elements, and applying
the profiles to ensure that your prints contain
the color you expect.
Profiling Your Scanner
and Printer
The starting point in building the workflow is
to create profiles for your scanner and printer.
MonacoEZcolor lets you build a scanner and
printer profile in a single session. The first step
is to print the printer profiling target from
MonacoEZcolor.
Note: You need to create a separate profile
for each combination of ink, paper, and
printer settings. When you use the profile to
make a print, you need to ensure that you’re
printing on the same paper, with the same
inks, using the same printer settings you
used to print the target.
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Printing the Printer Profiling Target
1Launch MonacoEZcolor. The welcome
screen appears:
2Click Create Printer Profile.
MonacoEZcolor provides you with some
general guidelines to observe during the
profile creation process. If you aren’t sure
how to follow these guidelines, don’t
worry—just follow the steps provided here.
3Click the right arrow at the lower-right of
the MonacoEZcolor screen to proceed.
The following screen appears:
4For any EPSON printer, click RGB Printer.
From the Printer Model/Technology pop-up
menu, choose Other for any EPSON printer,
or choose EPSON Stylus Photo 2000P if
this is the printer you’re using.
5Click the right arrow to proceed. The Print
Target screen appears:
6Make sure your EPSON printer is selected
as the current printer, and the paper you
want to profile is loaded. Then click Print.
Tip: If you plan on profiling multiple papers,
or the same paper at multiple resolutions,
click Save TIFF to save the target as a file
named “RGB Print Patches.tif”.Printing the
target is always the first step in building a
printer profile. If you have the target saved as
a TIFF, you can print it without having to go
through the introductory screens in
MonacoEZcolor.
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Click here to proceed

MonacoEZcolor advises you to record the
settings you’ll make in the printer driver, so
you can apply them when you use the
profile. When you click OK, the print
window appears:
7Choose Print Settings from the options
pop-up menu. The print settings appear:
8Choose the paper type you want to profile
from the Media Type list—for example,
Enhanced Matte Paper. Then click
Advanced Settings and choose your desired
print settings. Most of the time, the default
settings work well.
9Once you’ve made your selections, choose
Color Management from the Options
menu. The color management settings
appear:
10 Click No Color Adjustment to ensure that
the driver doesn’t alter the colors in the
profiling target. Then click Print.
Once you’ve printed the target, you’re ready
to proceed to the next part of the process:
using SilverFast to scan both the scanner and
printer targets.
Tip: For an accurate printer profile, make sure
you let the printer target dry for at least an
hour to reach its final, stable color. Some
paper-and-ink combinations take longer to
dry than others. If you wait until the next day,
you can be sure the target has reached its
final color.
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Preparing the Printer
and Scanner Targets
The next step is to scan the printer and scanner
targets in a single image. MonacoEZcolor will use
this scan to build the profiles.
1In MonacoEZcolor, click the right arrow.
The following screen appears:
2Follow the on-screen instructions to attach
the reflective IT8 target included in the
MonacoEZcolor package to the target
you printed.
Note: If you use tape to attach the target,
make sure the tape doesn’t cover any of the
color patches on the IT8.
3Click the right arrow to proceed.
Follow the on-screen instructions to place
the printer and scanner targets on the scanner.
4Click the right arrow to proceed. The
following screen appears:
Caution: On some operating systems,
MonacoEZcolor lets you scan directly into the
application using the EPSON scanner plug-in.
Do not use this feature. To create a profile
that LaserSoft SilverFast can use correctly,
you must scan the scanner and printer
targets using SilverFast, as described in the
following section.
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Scanning the Targets with SilverFast
To build profiles, you must use special settings in
SilverFast that are quite different from the ones
used in normal scanning. You must scan the
profiling target with all color management and
color correction features turned off, following the
instructions in this section.
1Launch the standalone SilverFast
application. You’ll be prompted to import
the SilverFast (Epson) plug-in, as shown.
You can find the plug-in inside the
SilverFast application folder.
Note: Your scanner must be connected to
your computer and turned on before you can
successfully import the scanner plug-in.
Next, you’ll be prompted to enter your
name, company, and serial number
information. You’ll find the SilverFast serial
number on the back of the SilverFast
package. Once you enter this information
and click OK, SilverFast opens.
Before you scan the target, you need to
make sure that SilverFast is configured
correctly for the profile scan.
2On the main SilverFast screen, click the
General tab, and make sure the Scan Mode
is set to Normal (File), Original is set to
Reflective, and Pos./Neg. is set to Positive,
as shown:
3Once you’ve confirmed the settings, click
the Options button. The SilverFast Defaults
screen appears:
4For Gamma-Gradation, enter 1.80. Check
for HDR output, then click the CMS tab.
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The CMS Defaults screen appears:
5Turn off all the color management options
for the target scan. You need to do this
whenever you scan a profiling target.
In the Color Management section, set
Scanner->Internal and Internal->Monitor
to <NONE>, and set Internal->Output
to RGB.
In the Profiles for ColorSync section, set
all profiles to <NONE>. You can leave
the other settings at their defaults.
6When you’ve completed all the settings,
click OK.
7On the main SilverFast screen, click the
Frame tab. Set the Scan Type to 48-bit
HDR Color, and set the resolution slider to
150 dpi, as shown:
8Once you’ve made your settings, click
Prescan. The prescan image appears in
SilverFast’s scanner window:
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9Crop the prescan, using the dotted line
surrounding the target as a rough guide.
Don’t worry if the scan is slightly skewed.
But if the scan is more than 10 degrees or so
from square, reposition the target and redo
the prescan.
10 Click Scan RGB to make the final target
scan. SilverFast prompts you to choose a
location, file format, and file name for the
scan, as shown:
11 Save the scan in TIFF format.
We recommend that you include the printer
and paper type in the file name. If you
profile multiple printers, or multiple papers
on the same printer, you’ll end up with many
scans that look very similar. Including this
information in the file name makes it easy to
identify which scan belongs to which paper
and printer combination.
Once you’ve entered the information, click
Save to start the scan. SilverFast scans the
target and saves it in the specified location.
You’ve completed the scanning process.
Now you can return to MonacoEZcolor and
build the profiles for your scanner and
printer.
Building the Scanner
and Printer Profiles
The final part of the profile-building process is
loading the target scan into MonacoEZcolor, then
naming, building, and saving the profiles.
1Return to MonacoEZcolor. If necessary, use
the navigation arrows at the lower-right of
the MonacoEZcolor screen to navigate to the
screen shown below. Then click Load an
Image, and load the target scan you created
in the previous section.
The target’s file name is displayed below the
button, as shown:
2Click the right arrow at the lower-right
to proceed.
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The following screen appears:
3After verifying that you’ve scanned the target
correctly, click the right arrow to proceed.
The following screen appears:
This screen lets you specify the reference
file, which contains color measurements of
the IT8 scanner target that MonacoEZcolor
uses in calculating the profile.
4Click Select Reference and load the
reference file corresponding to the reference
number on your IT8 target. (It’s the number
in white type at the lower left of the target.)
For example, the reference file for the target
labeled “MONR2002:12-02” is named
“MONR2002.12.02.mrf.”
Once you’ve loaded the reference file, its
name appears below the button.
5Verify that the reference file name matches
the reference number on the target, then
click the right arrow to proceed. The
following screen appears:
6Click the Name button in the Printer Profile
area, and enter a name for your printer
profile. Then check Scanner Profile, click
the Name button in the Scanner Profile area,
and enter a name for your scanner profile.
Tip: Use descriptive profile names rather
than the default names suggested by
MonacoEZcolor. For example, you might
name the profile for an EPSON Stylus®Photo
2200 using Enhanced Matte Paper “SP2200
EM.”
Once you’ve entered names for the profiles,
they appear under the respective Name
buttons.
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7Click the right arrow to proceed.
MonacoEZcolor displays a progress bar
as it builds the scanner profile, then the
printer profile.
Once the profiles are built, MonacoEZcolor
displays the Finished screen, as shown:
You’ve now successfully built profiles for both
your scanner (for reflective copy) and your printer
(for the paper you used to print the target). Later
in this booklet we’ll show you how to use these
profiles with SilverFast and Adobe Photoshop
Elements 2.0 or Adobe Photoshop 7.0.1.
If you want to start using your profiles
immediately, you can skip to “Scanning with
LaserSoft SilverFast” on page 23. In the next
sections, we show you how to build additional
printer profiles for different papers, how to build a
scanner profile for transparency scanning, and
how to calibrate and profile your monitor.
Building Additional
Printer Profiles
Remember that printer profiles are paper-specific,
so you may need to build additional profiles for
different paper stocks. You can follow the
previously described procedure to build additional
printer profiles. The only difference is that you
don’t need to check Scanner Profile in the Name
and Save Profile screen (shown on page 8).
However, if you’ve already saved the printer target
from MonacoEZcolor as a TIFF file, you can
streamline the process slightly. First, you print the
target from Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 or
Adobe Photoshop 7.0.1. Next, you scan the printer
and scanner targets in a single image using
SilverFast. Then you use MonacoEZcolor to build
the printer profile.
When printing profiling targets, make sure the
color management features in both the host
application and printer driver do not alter the color
values in the target. The following sections offer
step-by-step instructions for printing the target
from Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 or Adobe
Photoshop 7.0.1.
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Printing the Printer Target from
Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0
1Launch Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0.
2Choose Color Settings from the Edit menu
(Mac OS 9, Windows) or the Photoshop
Elements menu (Mac OS X). The Color
Settings dialog box appears:
3Choose Full color management —
optimized for Print, then click OK.
4Choose Open from the File menu, browse
to the RGB Print Patches.tif file you saved
from MonacoEZcolor, and open it. The file
appears on the screen:
5Choose Print Preview from the File menu.
The Print Preview dialog box appears:
6If necessary, click Page Setup to change the
paper size and orientation. Make sure Show
More Options is checked, then choose
Color Management from the pop-down
menu. In the Print Space section, choose
Same As Source from the Profile menu,
then click Print. The print window appears:
7Choose Print Settings from the options
pop-up menu.
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The print settings appear:
8Choose the paper type you want to profile
from the Media Type list—for example,
Enhanced Matte Paper. Then click
Advanced Settings and choose your desired
print settings. Most of the time, the default
settings work well.
9Once you’ve made your selections, choose
Color Management from the Options
menu. The Color Management settings
appear:
10 Click No Color Adjustment to ensure that
the driver doesn’t alter the colors in the
profiling target. Then click Print.
If you see a warning that some PostScript-
specific settings will be ignored, click OK.
11 Quit Adobe Photoshop Elements. When
prompted to save changes to the RGB Print
Patches.tif file, click Don’t Save.
Once you’ve printed the target, you’re ready
to proceed to the next part of the process:
using SilverFast to scan both the scanner and
printer targets. See pages 4 to 9 for step-by-
step instructions.
Tip: For an accurate printer profile, make
sure you let the printer target dry for at least
an hour to reach its final, stable color. Some
paper-and-ink combinations take longer to
dry than others. If you wait until the next day,
you can be sure the target has reached its
final color.
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Printing the Printer Target from
Adobe Photoshop 7.0.1
1Launch Adobe Photoshop 7.0.1.
2Choose Color Settings from the Edit menu
(Mac OS 9, Windows) or the Photoshop
menu (Mac OS X). The Color Settings
dialog box appears:
3For Settings, choose U.S. Prepress
Defaults, then click OK.
4Choose Open from the File menu, browse to
the RGB Print Patches.tif file you saved
from MonacoEZcolor, and open it. The
Missing Profile warning appears:
5Choose Leave as is (don’t color manage),
then click OK. The RGB Print Patches.tif
file appears.
6Choose Print with Preview from the File
menu. The Print Preview dialog box appears:
7If necessary, click Page Setup to change the
paper size and orientation. Make sure Show
More Options is checked, then choose
Color Management from the pop-down
menu. In the Print Space section, choose
Same As Source from the Profile menu,
then click Print. The Print window appears:
8Choose Print Settings from the options
pop-up menu.
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The Print Settings appear:
9Choose the paper type you want to profile
from the Media Type list—for example,
Enhanced Matte Paper. Then click
Advanced Settings and choose your desired
print settings. Most of the time, the default
settings work well.
10 Once you’ve made your selections, choose
Color Management from the Options
menu. The Color Management settings
appear:
11 Click No Color Adjustment to ensure that
the driver doesn’t alter the colors in the
profiling target. Then click Print.
If you see a warning that some PostScript-
specific settings will be ignored, click OK.
12 Quit Adobe Photoshop. When prompted to
save changes to the RGB Print Patches.tif
file, click Don’t Save.
Once you’ve printed the target, you’re ready
to proceed to the next part of the process:
using SilverFast to scan both the scanner and
printer targets.
Tip: For an accurate printer profile, make sure
you let the printer target dry for at least an
hour to reach its final, stable color. Some
paper-and-ink combinations take longer to
dry than others. If you wait until the next day,
you can be sure the target has reached its
final color.
Preparing the Targets
To build a printer profile, MonacoEZcolor needs a
single scanned image containing both the printer
profiling target and the scanner IT8 profiling
target. So whenever you build a printer profile,
you must attach the scanner IT8 target to the
printer target in the location marked on the
printer target.
If you use tape to attach the target, make sure that
it never touches the color patches, and avoid
touching the color patches when you handle
the target.
Once you’ve prepared the targets, you’re ready to
scan them with SilverFast and use MonacoEZcolor
to build your profiles. Follow the instructions on
pages 4 to 9.
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Building a Scanner Profile
for Transparencies
To scan transparencies, you need to use a different
profile from the one you use for reflective copy
such as photographic prints. This section provides
step-by-step instructions for building a scanner
transparency profile.
First, you’ll scan the transparency target included
with MonacoEZcolor using SilverFast, then you’ll
load the scan into MonacoEZcolor and build the
profile.
Locate the 4x5 transparency IT8.7/1 target
included in the MonacoEZcolor package, and load
it in your scanner’s 4x5 film holder. The target
must be loaded face-down in the holder (“wrong-
reading” or mirror-image as viewed from above).
Handle the target carefully by its edges to avoid
getting fingerprints or smudges on the color
patches.
Then place the holder on the scanner glass, with
the large arrow on the holder pointing to the right
rear of the scanner glass. Then close the lid.
Scanning the Transparency Target
To build a transparency profile, you must use
special settings in SilverFast, similar to those used
in building the reflective profile. You must scan
the profiling target with all color management and
color correction features turned off, following the
instructions in this section.
1Launch the standalone SilverFast
application. You’ll be prompted to import
the SilverFast (Epson) plug-in, as shown.
You can find the plug-in inside the
SilverFast application folder.
Note: Your scanner must be connected to
your computer and turned on before you can
successfully import the scanner plug-in.
Before you scan the target, you need to
make sure that SilverFast is configured
correctly for the profile scan.
2On the main SilverFast screen, click the
General tab, and make sure the Scan Mode
is set to Normal (File), Original is set to
Transparency, and Pos./Neg. is set to
Positive, as shown:
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3Once you’ve confirmed the settings, click
the Options button. The SilverFast Defaults
screen appears:
4For Gamma-Gradation, enter 2.20. Check
for HDR output, then click the CMS tab.
The CMS Defaults screen appears:
5Turn off all the color management options
for the target scan. You need to do this
whenever you scan a profiling target.
In the Color Management section, set
Scanner->Internal and Internal->Monitor
to <NONE>, and set Internal->Output to
RGB.
In the Profiles for ColorSync section, set
all profiles to <NONE>. You can leave
the other settings at their defaults.
6When you’ve completed all the settings,
click OK.
7On the main SilverFast screen, click the
Frame tab. Set the Scan Type to 48-bit
HDR Color, and set the resolution slider to
300 dpi, as shown:
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8Once you’ve made your settings, click
Prescan. The prescan appears in SilverFast’s
scanner window:
9Crop the prescan to include only the target,
then click the Rotate tool to rotate the image
to the correct orientation, as shown:
10 Click Scan RGB to make the final target
scan. SilverFast prompts you to choose a
location, file format, and file name for the
scan, as shown:
11 Save the scan in TIFF format. We
recommend that you include the scanner
and film type in the file name.
Once you’ve entered the information, click Save
to start the scan. SilverFast scans the target and
saves it in the specified location.
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