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calibration, but the 1001 objectives focus on calibrating inkjet and laser

printers. This section describes one kind of calibration—but keep an eye out

for additional calibration steps in the “Inkjet Printer Maintenance” and “Laser

Printer Maintenance” sections later in this chapter.

Color calibration uses hardware to generate an International Color

Consortium (ICC) color profile, a file that defines the color characteristics of

a hardware device. The operating system then uses this profile to correct any

color shifts in your monitor. With a calibrated monitor, you know any color

shifts in your photograph are really in the photo, not an artifact of your

monitor.

NOTE Two of the best monitor calibration hardware manufacturers are

Datacolor Spyder—that’s the one I use most—and X-Rite ColorMunki

Display. Get one. You’ll be much happier with your print outcome! Here are

the main URLs: www.datacolor.com and www.xrite.com.

Where these ICC color profiles really start to get interesting is that they

can be created for printers as well. Just like with a monitor, they let the

computer know the unique color quirks of a specific printer on a specific

paper. When your printer and monitor have been properly calibrated and the

profiles installed, your prints and monitor display should match. Color

profiles are sometimes included on the installation media with a printer, but

you can create or purchase custom profiles as well. Windows includes

Windows Color System (WCS) to help build color profiles for use across

devices. WCS is based on a newer component Microsoft calls the color

infrastructure and translation engine (CITE).

Managing Public/Shared/Networked Devices

While we’ve looked at a few of the ways you can share a printer or

multifunction device over a network, there’s more to know about sharing

these devices than just how to set them up. A few big issues are network

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