Blue Colour Profile Problem

[valerie sauve]

I recently purchased a copy of SilverFast 8 ai Studio and a 5x7" IT8 Reflective Target to calibrate my CanoScan 9000F Scanner but i get very different looking colours in the SilverFast preview screen or from the Print Tao Screen than i do from the PhotoShop 5.1 screen or when printed using my Canon Pixma PRO-1 Printer. There is a very significant emphasising of the blues / Blacks - when scanning an image without much blue this is not nearly as noticeable though but still there. I am using a calibrated Apple iMac Screen and a calibrated printer / paper profile both done with an x-Rite Colour Munki Photo colourimeter. See the below Screen shot comparisons...

SilverFast Preview Screen Shot

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PhotoShop Screen Shot

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You might think that the PhotoShop images look better but they are a long way from the more subdued tones of the original... and way to saturated for the finished prints...

The SilverFast IT8 Calibration runs correctly and comes up with a DeltaE of 1.4-1.5 each time and stores the file correctly and PhotoShop finds the embedded ICC profile OK - I have tried 600, 1200, 2400, 3600 and 4800 dpi scans using either the Archive Print workflow or a manual one and saved the files (upto 2400 dpi) in both PSD and Tiff and loaded them into PhotoShop manually - nothing seems to affect the blue / black colour cast or over saturation of the image in PhotoShop whether i leave PhotoShop's working space as the embedded scanner profile or convert to ProPhoto RGB...

The prints match the PhotoShop screen images closely as you'd expect with a fully calibrated workflow but they look nothing like the originals i scanned...

Can you suggest what might be wrong...? I've gone through a whole box of paper and loads of ink trying to find out what is causing this problem...

[LSI_Ketelhohn]

Dear customer,

How did you set the highlights and shadows?
Did you use the automatic or did you do it manually.

If you have not tried it manually I suggest you try the Pipette tool.
It allows you to define the brightest and darkest point in your scan.
Also the neutral pipette can remove any colorcast if used on a neutral area.
Many papers have a colorcast (yellow to blue depending on age) which can become visible to the scanner.
The neutral pipette is able to remove this.

kind regards,
Arne Ketelhohn.