"TC" <do-not-reply@i-do get-enough-spam-already-2498.com> wrote:

> I am having lots of problems with gamma correction on my system. At least
> there are a lot of iffy things.
>
> [...]
>
> Now, I am using Corel quite a lot. Corel has a lot of colour correcting,
> too. I downloaded the proper colour-management system files for my monitor
> and my printer, respectively, but the printed result did not look much like
> the screen. The PDF-file I sent to my printer (I mean the real one, the guy
> who doesn't bother printing anything below 1000 copies ;-) did look like
> neither my printout, nor the screen.
>
> So I did trash all colour-correcting. All set to "ignore" - from video card
> driver to Corel to printer profile and printer driver. And behold: now I get
> on my printer what I see on my TFT and the guys at the printing press
> produce something that comes close enough to what I want.


FWIW, my experience matches yours to the dot: The more "color management" is
going on, the rattier and less predictable the result becomes. Which is why I
keep asking folks who write software for a switch that goes "turn off / ignore /
keep your hands off all this"...

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