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<info>
<link type="guide" xref="color#calibration"/>
<link type="seealso" xref="color-calibrationtargets"/>
<link type="seealso" xref="color-calibrate-printer"/>
<link type="seealso" xref="color-calibrate-screen"/>
<link type="seealso" xref="color-calibrate-camera"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.7.1" version="0.2" date="2012-11-16" status="outdated"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.10" date="2013-11-04" status="candidate"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.28" date="2018-04-05" status="review"/>
<credit type="author">
<name>Richard Hughes</name>
<email>richard@hughsie.com</email>
</credit>
<credit type="editor">
<name>Michael Hill</name>
<email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
</credit>
<credit type="editor">
<name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
<email>kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
</credit>
<include xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="legal.xml"/>
<desc>Calibrating your scanner is important to capture accurate colors.</desc>
</info>
<title>How do I calibrate my scanner?</title>
<p>If you want your scanner to represent the color accurately in scans, you
should calibrate it.</p>
<steps>
<item>
<p>Make sure your scanner is connected to your computer with a cable or
over the network.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Scan your calibration target and save it as an uncompressed TIFF
file.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Open the <gui xref="shell-introduction#activities">Activities</gui> overview and
start typing <gui>Settings</gui>.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Click on <gui>Settings</gui>.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Click <gui>Devices</gui> in the sidebar.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Click <gui>Color</gui> in the sidebar to open the panel.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Select your scanner.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Press <gui style="button">Calibrate…</gui> to commence the
calibration.</p>
</item>
</steps>
<note style="tip">
<p>Scanner devices are incredibly stable over time and temperature, so do
not usually need to be recalibrated.</p>
</note>
</page>