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Monitor calibration?
Hi all. Need some advice on the above.
Can someone advise me how to get a colour match(or close) between monitor and printer, as my printer is printing a hell of a lot darker than the screen is displaying.
At the mo i am making adjustments in the rip to compensate for the difference.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Matt
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if you use photoshop then run there screen setup that should sort most of the problems i then print some thing and hold next to the screen and fine tune the screen with its controls may be not the correct way but seams to give a good guide to the finished print in future.
i will only use a good crt screen for this thou tfts are getting better.
chris
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I use an Apple flat panel monitor on our PC’s
http://www.apple.com/uk/displays/You certainly notice the difference
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Cheers guys. Looking for an economical fix tho dave.
Chris i’ll give it a go when i get 5mins.
cheers
Matt
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it is, after x amount of money wasted on bad prints we went for it and after staff complaining about flickering CRT’s we had to do something…. :lol1:
about £400 a peice tho
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Pantone do monitor calibration tools. I have used one in the past with fairly good results. Traditionally they were quite expensive however they’ve just brought out a cheap verison.
http://www.pantoneshop.co.uk/index.php? … c53773d9b5
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but make sure ur using a decent monitor if using a CRT or a cheap 19" flat panel. Some flat panels cant do decent colour and CRT can get dark.
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I use Pantone’s Huey calibrator and its a cracking little gadget – reminds you when to recalibrate your monitor and if you keep it plugged in, it will adjust to the rooms ambient light every 5 minutes or so. That’s handy if – like us – you have overhead windows and get clouds & sun every few minutes!
The difference is amazing – I think it cost me about £60 and was well worth it. 😀
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Thanks for the replys. Dave & les. These sound like good little tools. Wheres the best place to get these/
Matt
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This is where I got mine from:
http://www.computerwarehouse.co.uk/list/-/-/-/6/2/1/huey/-/1159438422483606
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Thankyou !
Matt
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I use the Huey as well and can recommend it, the screen will look wrong at first but you get used to it and the colours on screen are very close to the final print for most colours, it’s out for others though so I guess they are out of the colour gamut of the printer.
Keep in mind that RGB (monitor) has a bigger colour gamut that CMYK (printer) so some colours on screen are just not possible with the printer, oranges and greens are the main ones.Steve
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As I known, in Photoshop we have to go to view/proof setup/custom and set with the printer device profile. This will simulate the color when we have print out on monitor. However, we can do this after we have calibrated our monitor.
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Hiya Matt,
As it’s been suggested, good color calibration depends on your monitor. Unless you’re spending a $1K+ on a LCD, chances are you’re not going to get vey close.
Anyway, if you’re on a PC, have a CRT, and use Adboe products, run Adobe Gamma. It can be found in the control panel. It should have installed when you set up the software. Follow the instructions and you’ll get a lot closer.
The other thing you need to look at before you run the program is to check what the monitor Kelvin(? The proper term escapes me at the moment) is set at. Most monitors are set to standard television setting which is too bright. To get more accurate color, you need to bump it down to about 5000k.Good luck,
Checkers
a.k.a. Brian Born
Harrisburg, PA USA
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