PRINTER/MONITOR CALIBRATION

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tombriggs
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PRINTER/MONITOR CALIBRATION

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I HATE TO ADMIT THIS, BUT I NEED SOME HELP IN CALIBRATING MY PRINTER AND MY MONITOR ... IS THERE AN OLD "STEP BY STEP HOW TO" POST SOMEWHERE THAT CAN GUIDE ME THROUGH THIS MAZE??? SOME COLORS COME THROUGH GREAT BUT OFTEN I GET A LOT OF PURPLE TINT ...
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Re: PRINTER/MONITOR CALIBRATION

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Please see the Color Management White Paper available here: http://dl-c.com/content/view/34/55/. In particular the section on Monitor Curves near the end of the paper should help you.

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Re: PRINTER/MONITOR CALIBRATION

Post by jsachs »

It is a common problem, even with color management to have blues come out either too purple or too cyan since light saturated blues are usually in the monitor gamut and outside the printer gamut. Reducing the saturation of the blues may help. Otherwise it may be necessary to tweak the blues using Transformation/Color Correct and some trial and error to get a pleasing result.
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