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Originally Posted by chickadee
it is weird , i too am not far off monitor image to printer ,
agree with you ,all modern technology you think they would have them all same colour  |
Interesting comment Sue but let me give you something to mull over....
Are you certain that what you see is exactly the same shade as what someone else sees? There is no way to test that perfectly.
The brain is very clever at determining colours in different lighting, hence all the problems we have with white balance in cameras because the processor cannot determine what is white and what isn't like the brain can. We look at a sheet of paper in our living room in the evening under a tungsten light and never question that it is a white sheet of paper, despite the fact that actually it looks a creamy yellow colour.
If you look at a mid-turquoise colour and show it to a hundred people, half will insist it is green and the other half will swear it is blue. That is not because they don't know what blue and green are, it is because their colour perception differs enough that they see one or the other as more dominant.
Print a red block next to a blue block on a piece of paper and look at it: even though they are both the same distance from your eyes, the red one looks like it is more forward than the blue. This is due to the way the spectrum of light is received by the brain and analysed: a common saying in photography is 'Red proceeds, Blue recedes.'
The reason I am saying all this is just to make the overall point that if two people set up their monitors, they will invariably set them up differently. Neither is right or wrong, each has set it to their own perception of colours.
When it comes to printing, it must always be born in mind that ink is entirely different to light so when you mix inks you get very different things to when you mix coloured lights. Hence when you print out something the inks will always appear differently to the way they do on screen, however closely we manage to calibrate our monitor and printer. It is simply impossible to create an identical reproduction, we go for as close as we can but again it will be subjective.
Light is fascinating and the debate about inks, calibrators, colours, etc will go on forever
Cheers,
Rob