I cant seem to get my Ricoh 820 to print correctly. Everything is very dark like there is too much black.
If I export the images to jpgs, I get better color replication. Can someone guide me through the color profile setting for windows 7 with Corel x6 - 64 bit.
what color profile are you using?
Default installation setting was sRGB IEC6 1966-2.1
I switched it to Adobe RGB (1998) and switched the conversion to the printer (Ricoh 820)
This seems to have fixed it (or at least it is much closer to an acceptable color balance.
RZinzer said: I switched it to Adobe RGB (1998) and switched the conversion to the printer (Ricoh 820) This seems to have fixed it (or at least it is much closer to an acceptable color balance.
Unlikely. Not enough information to tell what you did exactly ( what does it mean "switched it to Adobe RGB" - assigned color profile, converted document colors to Adobe RGB profile?). I would guess you merely mismatched color profiles, and now your printer driver has no clue the colors it is receiving from Draw are Adobe RGB, it is still assuming they are sRGB. Mistaking wide gamut Adobe RGB for sRGB would get you significantly desaturated colors, something that you took for resolution of your problem. It is not.
Color Management guide ( PDF ), page 32
Go to Ricoh website and download ICM profiles for the 820 printer series:
http://www.ricoh-usa.com/downloads/popup/popup_manuals_drivers_download.aspx?path=http://support.ricoh.com/bb/html/dr_ut_e/rc2/model/spc82/spc82en.htm
Right click on the profile, select Install Profile, this will copy profiles into your system's C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\color folder. Open Color Management Settings dialog from the Control Panel, select your Ricoh printer(s) on Devices tab, check "Use my settings for this device", press "Add..." button and select Ricoh RGB profile if you are printing to PCL (Windows GDI) driver, you can use either RGB or CMYK color profile if you use PostScript driver.
In Draw print dialog, select "Color conversions performed by: Corel Draw", the Ricoh color profile should be picked up automatically from OS CM settings.
It is hard to tell how accurate colors you will get from Ricoh canned profiles, as color profile is only valid for the specific paper it has been created for, but it should be something closer to proper settings than blindly using Adobe RGB.
Gennady