Hi Kevin,
In my early version of pp, there is a profile editing screen. You can fine tune the profile in there. If you have that facility in your version, do the two images look different? If they look the same, but your actual print is not good, chances are you've the wrong settings in the driver when you make the print. If they look different, and it is a colour cast in the profile, it may be easiest to correct the profile in there. I've never bothered profiling the scanner, fwiw.
Best wishes,
Ray
Well Ray, you got me thinking and I ran a few more tests. I pulled up the profile in the editor to see what it looked like. To my surprise the profile screen and printer looked almost the same. Which is what the Prism screens told me because they looked very good during profile generation. Ok now I brought up Photoshop CS5 and set the print up just like is Qimage with Photoshop using the PP profile and the printer setting set to no color controls. When I printed the file the print preview looked the same as when I used Qimage, heavy color cast.
Then I tried it again, setting photoshop to allow the printer to manage the color and set the printer driver up to use the PP profile. The print screen was almost the same as the original print, or as close as a print screen can show. So I then tried the same with Qimage and set Qimage to allow the printer to manage the color settings. The print preview was the same as photoshop. The print screen looked real good.
So now I have no idea why it is working this way. My work-around will work I just wonder why it doesn't work when Qimage uses the profile to manage the color. Any ideas?
Kevin