andy_piper2 Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 It's my understanding that monitor profiles play no roll in the printing color management chain. The monitor profile 'filters' how the picture data is presented on the screen, but only the printer profile 'filters' the image as it's processed and sent to the printer. Is that correct? In other words, if I switch from a monitor profile using gamma 1.8 to a profile using gamma 2.2 -- and don't change anything else -- my picture will look somewhat darker on the screen, but I won't get a darker print? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
._kaa Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 Yes, this is correct. Of course, if you are deliberately using a wrong monitor profile, what you see on your screen will not match what you see on your print. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noshir_patel Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 Yes you are correct. And assuming you're calibrating your monitor with Adobe Gamma or some hardware calibration tool, you don't need to worry about Kaa's comment because your profile will match your newly calibrated monitor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackflesher Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 And I'll add that typially one uses a 1.8 gamma setting for a Mac and a 2.2 gamma setting for a PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njb Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 Let me add my two cents with the disclaimer that I could be entirely wrong, but this is what works for me. It's my understanding that when using photoshop in an ICC-profile based workflow (I assume that's what we're talking about), photoshop takes the document and it's embedded profile, and converts the image to your monitor color space on the fly. As with any profile conversion (like RGB->CMYK) it's not perfect. The monitor color space cannot possibly display the entire gamut of colors contained within a typical wide-gamut working space, such as Adobe RGB, ColorMatch RGB, etc.. It makes sense to me that conversions between two color spaces with equal gamma settings would render more reliable results than conversions made between color spaces with unequal gamma settings. Gamma is just one setting that dictates the color gamut of a particular color space. The closer the gamut of your working space is to that of your monitor space, the more accurate the image will be on-screen, and subsequently, in print. It's been my experience that if your working space has a gamut of 2.2 (Adobe RGB 1998), setting your monitor to the same gamut yields more reliable results between monitor and print. Keep in mind that when you send an image to print, you are sending the data in the working color space, not the converted version you see on your screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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