What is profiling a monitor or a scanner?
Profiling a monitor is the process of calibrating the monitor, describing or characterizing its ability to display color accurately. There are two ways to do this: visually, using software such as MonacoEzcolor alone; or automatically, using software and a colorimeter (a color sensor). Similarly, profiling a scanner is the process of describing or characterizing a scanner’s ability to scan color accurately. This is done by scanning an industry-standard IT8 target and using CMS software such as SilverFast to measure and compare the target?s scanned color values to known color values for the target. The known color values are contained in a reference file usually supplied with the target. The final result of a scanner profile is created by computing the difference between measured values of the scanner and the known reference values.
