To evaluate the color-matching procedures outlined here, I used images taken with a Kodak DC-50 digital camera. The camera came with me as I rafted under, hiked around and helicoptered over Brazil's stupendous Iguacu Falls (or Iguazu, when viewed from the Argentine side). This excursion was followed by a week of oppressive heat and humidity deep in the Amazon jungle. With frequent downloads to an IBM ThinkPad 701C laptop and one spare set of AA batteries, the camera survived some 500 exposures, a few of which turned out to be pretty good photographs.

Once back in civilization, I viewed one of the digital images on a MAG InnoVision 17-inch monitor whose display had been optimized with Sonera Technologies' DisplayMate software. I tried several printer driver modes and ICM settings, then evaluated the printed results using the admittedly subjective Woram Standard.

Test	Printer Mode	ICM Profile	Evaluation by Woram Standard
1	No adjustment	None	A trifle dark, some loss of definition, but best blue in sky and good cloud contrast
2	Match Screen	None	Also dark, but better definition than 1.
3	Automatic	None	Lighter, with best contrast in shadow areas
4	Automatic	mnb22g15.icm	Same as 3 (ICM has no effect in Auto mode).
5	No adjustment	mnb22g15.icm	Similar to 2, but better color saturation in rainbow. Some loss of shadow contrast
6	No adjustment	mnb22g18.icm	Slightly lighter, bluer sky, slight loss of saturation in rainbow
7	No adjustment	mnb22g22.icm	About the same as 6.
8	No adjustment	colorific.icm	Same as 5.

Depending on where you're willing to compromise, you'll get the best colors with either a printer driver in automatic mode or with an ICM color profile enabled. For casual use, Windows 95's color profiles should suffice. But for the ultimate tweak, the Colorific software offers more control over the printed page.

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