[argyllcms] Re: colour management and... photo lab
- From: Nikolay Pokhilchenko <nikolay_po@xxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:10:31 +0400
21 июня 2011, 04:58 Stephen T wrote:
Forget about printing in-store. You can go to different stores running the same
machine and get different results. The employees in chain stores are not colour
professionals and you can never be sure they regularly test and adjust their
machines.Yes. It's quite right. But if You have domestic lab with access to
operator, You able to ask certain type of paper, can ask a calibration
procedure special for Your print run.
If they are aware of user manual and didn't cheat with machine chemistry, the
results are quite stable.
Finally, it's really difficult to get prints to match the a computer display.
You really need to start with a good display (sRGB gamut at least), calibrate
it to the appropriate white point, reduce the contrast ratio to match printed
material, profile it, use a colour-managed photo-viewer, view the print under
quality lighting etc.
If the display is calibrated and profiled properly, and You've find stable
print, It's not impossible, but yes, it's rather difficult.
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