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CRT Monitor Color Temp Adjustment ? And, What's Best For Matching Printer Output ?
Hello:
Running a 5 yr old Dim XPS R and W98.
Have a Dell supplied Sony CRT Trinitron monitor.
Have to admit I've never fiddled with the color adjustments any, ever,
since everything looked just great out of the box. Real nice monitor.
Anyway, i recently bought a very good Canon i969 photprinter, and have been
trying to get the prints to color match what i see on the monitor.
Am confused over the color temp options.
Apparently I've had it set to 9300 degrees K all this time.
Picture match does look a bit better when i try 5,000.
What do most of you folks use ?
What are the technical differences in what each temperature is supposed to
simulate ?
What should it be on ?
Does it make sense to have one value for general viewing, and the other
for seeing what my prints will look like ?
Any thoughts on this would be most appreciated.
Thanks,
Bob
Running a 5 yr old Dim XPS R and W98.
Have a Dell supplied Sony CRT Trinitron monitor.
Have to admit I've never fiddled with the color adjustments any, ever,
since everything looked just great out of the box. Real nice monitor.
Anyway, i recently bought a very good Canon i969 photprinter, and have been
trying to get the prints to color match what i see on the monitor.
Am confused over the color temp options.
Apparently I've had it set to 9300 degrees K all this time.
Picture match does look a bit better when i try 5,000.
What do most of you folks use ?
What are the technical differences in what each temperature is supposed to
simulate ?
What should it be on ?
Does it make sense to have one value for general viewing, and the other
for seeing what my prints will look like ?
Any thoughts on this would be most appreciated.
Thanks,
Bob
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June 23rd, 2004 17:00
BOBRRR,
you are venturing into the age old question, that is like my name. What you see is what you get....
Getting your screen and printer to match is impossible. Getting it really REALLY close is hard, and sometimes expensive. Printers use CMYK to replicate output, and monitors use RGB. Two very different styles. HP printers come with a "basic" tool that prints out a series of colour blocks that you match to what you think is the closest to the screen.
The only way I have seen exact matches are with uber expensive Pantone Calibrated and Certified Printers (Read 8K USD) for lasers, and near that for ink based products. Pantone is a series of standardized colour samples that are given RGB values, that create a CMYK output. A printer product that supports this is hard to find. Not to discourage you, just that what you are asking for is typically for the "pros".
check it - www.pantone.com
^_^ Cheers!