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Long winded but I do get to the question in the end 🙂
I’ve been trying to get my monitor and printouts to agree. After first succeeding without colour management I decided to change to full colour management in order to be able to make use of professional printer which specifies and supplies a colour profile.
Now I have to get it right again.
My camera produces files with embedded Adobe RGB and the monitor is calibrated with Apples built in display calibrator, the judge by eye variety. Right, I’m on a Mac.
So far so good the colours agree in the correct lighting of 5000K although I have to set the monitor to 9300K to see them the same. This is contrary to the commercial printer’s specification of setting the monitor to 5000K – is this going to cause me problems?
The difference I have left is in that the printout is darker than on the screen. My printer is a Lexmark Z65 which seems fine on all other points except this. Black is black, however and white is white.
Could it be due to the difference between the Mac standard gamma of 1.8 and the PC standard of 2.2? Could the Lexmark be using a PC standard gamma in a Mac printer driver?
And why is there a difference in gamma settings between the two systems?
Tel.
I’ve been trying to get my monitor and printouts to agree. After first succeeding without colour management I decided to change to full colour management in order to be able to make use of professional printer which specifies and supplies a colour profile.
Now I have to get it right again.
My camera produces files with embedded Adobe RGB and the monitor is calibrated with Apples built in display calibrator, the judge by eye variety. Right, I’m on a Mac.
So far so good the colours agree in the correct lighting of 5000K although I have to set the monitor to 9300K to see them the same. This is contrary to the commercial printer’s specification of setting the monitor to 5000K – is this going to cause me problems?
The difference I have left is in that the printout is darker than on the screen. My printer is a Lexmark Z65 which seems fine on all other points except this. Black is black, however and white is white.
Could it be due to the difference between the Mac standard gamma of 1.8 and the PC standard of 2.2? Could the Lexmark be using a PC standard gamma in a Mac printer driver?
And why is there a difference in gamma settings between the two systems?
Tel.
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