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PIM (PRINT Image Matching) photoshop plugin

There is one unpleasant and sometimes painful detail in using digital photo-technologies on which I am about now to enter. We have already wrote earlier about this piteous fact that it is almost impossible to find a modern compact digital camera, which makes it affordable (or convenient) to shot images of the size of 1024-768 pixels, or even 1280-1024 pixels; which dimensions are the most common resolutions of the monitors, nowadays used. This is not an accidental phenomenon, the fact is that manufacturers focuses on photographers who will print their images on paper afterwards. May be because of the indifference to the photo-attendance on the web of the same, or because of confusing complexity of technology in this case; but the simonpure fact takes presence: the color profiles of our shot images we see on computer monitors and that one of images stored in cameras' flash memory (and being originally shot) are different. In other words, we see on computer monitors images of lower quality, of poorer color palette, that they really are and that they will evince on paper print. In fact, the main producers of digital cameras currently use color managing technology from Epson - the PRINT Image Matching (PIM). Today, you can print pictures of remarkable quality on the printer directly from a camera or a computer - using special soft from the camera manufacturer. But if you apply not specialized soft (Photoshop, ASDSee, browsers, etc.) for viewing or printing image, it may lose its color richness and quality. Because the conventional soft always convert the inherent color space of the images shot by the modern cameras. This fact must be kept in mind. Particularly strong the transformation affects the hue of red.

However, it is possible to view pictures on a monitor in Photoshop and print them in its real color profile. Only we should install one Epson's plagin. (Images in our modern cameras are shot and stored in Epson specialized color space). This plagin is PIM (PRINTImage Matching). It's free plagin. You can search for it on Epson's sites or download it from our website HERE:

The plugin should be unpacked, run and shown a path to your Photoshop Plug-Ins folder. Afterwards you will be able to view and print images in their original color profile, following next easy steps for opening them: "Import" -> PRINT Image Matching II ... (not from "Open").

From explanations on the Epson's site: images, imported by PRINT Image Matching Plug-in are based on the color profile "EPSON RGB 2001". The profile supports the high quality of images with PRINT Image Matching technology.

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