On 2/14/2011 10:31 AM, Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> Still not really seeing how having a more expensive monitor helps
>> here... It's not like the quality of the monitor affects what colour
>> the printer prints.
>
> When you're creating the initial image, you need to know what it's going
> to look like when it's printed.
>
Course, in principle, most systems can now use a "profile" for the 
printer and display, so that, in theory, as long as you can also get 
data from the display on what tweaks you have made to it, what you see 
in the screen is "translated" through the profiles, to match what you 
see to what has been printed.

This sort of works, some times. lol Usually, its just better to have a 
display that is accurate, and printer that is, and thus, again, in 
principle, have the two properly match colors properly. Usually that 
meant a real high end printer, and a screen that supported "way" more 
colors than a standard display, and had been "pre-tuned" to exact 
specifications. Now.. most of them are pretty close to start with, and 
most printers do a pretty fair job of producing similar output, so its a 
bit less critical, except when it isn't.

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