User`s guide

VueScan User's Guide

To profile your printer with an IT8 target:

1. Profile your scanner (see above)

2. Set Input | Task (p. 49) to "Make IT8 target"

3. Press the Scan button (p. 47), this will create a print with your printer

4. Insert printout into scanner

5. Set Input | Task (p. 49) to "Profile printer"

6. Press the Preview button (p. 46)

7. If necessary, rotate the preview image so that the grey scale is at the bottom and the

letters and numbers can be read normally

8. Adjust size of the VueScan cropping mask until it matches the IT8 target image

9. You may need to readjust the target on the scanner platten and press the Preview

button (p. 46) again if the image is at an angle

10. Choose Profile | Profile printer (p. 43) from the drop-down menu

11. The ICC profile will be written to the file specified by Color | Printer ICC profile (p. 76)

If you've previously made an ICC profile for a printer, you only need to do the following:

1. Set Color | Printer color space (p. 75) to "ICC profile"

2. Set Color | Printer ICC profile (p. 76) to the file name of the ICC file

VueScan normally reads and writes the ICC profile for a printer using the file printer.icc.

Alternatively, you can type the file name of the ICC profile into Color | Printer ICC profile (p. 76).

Film Profiling with IT8 Targets

Film profiling is the process of determining the precise color characteristics of color negative

film. To do this, you need to take a picture of an IT8 target and scan this frame. Make sure the

picture is rectangular on the film.

You can obtain an A4-sized camera target from:

Wolf Faust: http://www.targets.coloraid.de/