Colour Managment

[Peter_Willson@adobeforums.com]

Hi
I started to design a logo in Illustrator 8 then, because I wanted the use of transparency, I decided to upgrade to Illustrator CS (trial ed). My client likes the colour of the logo printed on my Canon s4500 printer from Illustrator 8 but when I print from CS the colours print a slightly differently ie burgendy appears more like a mid brown...

I have set the CMS to 'preserve the colours as per Illustrator 6' option in CS which looks fine on screen but still prints differently to the original Illustrator 8 version.

Can I import the Illustrator 8 default RGB & cmyk colour settings to CS? I thought this might fix my problem.

Computer Pent 3 600mhz
Printer Canon s4500
Win XP
500MB ram

Thanks.

Pete W

[LenHewitt@adobeforums.com]

Peter,

Suggest you take 15 minutes or so the look at
[url]http://www.computer-darkroom.com[/url].

Although the information there is presented for Photoshop, everything is
equally applicable to Illustrator CS, and following the instructions there
you should be able to get output that matches your screen image.

One quick tip. When outputting to non-PostScript printers you should only
send RGB data. No non-PostScript printer driver can pass CMYK data and the
application has to convert to on-the-fly to RGB. This often leads to less
than perfect colours on the output.

[adam_setia@adobeforums.com]

Hello there,

I have the same problem with what Mr.Peter has. I have gone through computer-darkroom.com and adjusted the necesary options. Still there is no improvements. Im using a canon bjc S300 printer. What could be the problem?

[Jacob_Bugge@adobeforums.com]

Peter and Adam,

Have you made sure that the colour settings in CS and AI8 are identical? If you have used Emulate Adobe Illustrator 6.0 in CS but not in AI8 there is a difference.

[Harron_K._Appleman@adobeforums.com]

Jacob,

There was no such thing as an "Emulate Adobe Illustrator 6.0" setting in IL 8. There was no RGB document mode in IL 8 -- that was introduced at IL 9. IL 8 and earlier could only output device CMYK, which meant printing to anything other than a Postscript device was strictly pot luck as far as colors were concerned.

Peter and Adam, if you want to do this right (and not just depend on lucky coincidences) you must follow the steps, starting with monitor calibration. Work in RGB mode if you are printing to non-Postscript desktop printers.

=-= Harron =-=