I know how to print colour targets and load profiles in Photoshop. I also found out how to do it with CorelDraw 14. Now I am using CorelDraw 18 and I am confused by the new interface. Please can someone explain how I can set up CorelDraw to print my colour patch target using CorelDraw and then once it has been scanned to generate a paper profile how can I load that profile in CorelDraw? What settings do I need to adjust in the CD interface? I notice there is a general colour management interface and also a document colour management interface. Do I need to adjust the settings in one or both of them? Your help would be much appreciated.
Kind regards
Chris
Make sure the application color management and document settings match, especially the RGB color space of the test image.
When you select print under the CorelDRAW print dialog color tab set the device to do the conversion and the RGB color space of the document, (or a base printer profile from the manufacturer) check preserve black and if it's available uncheck change RGB numbers.
Read the test print, adjust the print profile, and when doing the next orient, in the color tab use the profile you created instead of the document RGB.
Thanks David. For printing the colour patch target, do the attached screenshots look good? Assuming the patch target is sRGB. In the CD document settings I have selected primary colour mode RGB /perceptual. For the Colour management dialogue I have started with European general purpose and then changed to RGB perceptual. I don't think the print dialogue needed changing. Preserve pure black is checked.
Give that a shot and adjust your profile from there. No one thing the preserve pure black is for converting 100K of the CMYK model to R255 G255 B255 as your device is non postscript. If you're not use CMYK you are best not to use it.
Thanks David. Now say I have made the custom paper profile and loaded it into CorelDraw and am ready to print. I load my image which happens to be in Adobe RGB and not sRGB. So I suppose the document settings will show Adobe RGB. Will that make any difference? When the colour test patch image was set up, the document settings showed sRGB.
If your document is Adobe RGB and the image is RGB print and select your newly created profile