Thanks! I'll go for the calibration and some trials in CMYK colors for printing.
kind regards Erik 2011/6/19 Henning Hraban Ramm <[email protected]> > Yes, because your monitor uses RGB and your printer uses CMYK. The >> conversion between thetwo is not too complicated, but actually getting the >> same output from the two is hard. RGB is an additive model, CMYK is >> subtractive (read about the different models, wikipedia will do). The color >> impression you get by looking at the output is generated in completely >> different ways. >> > > Most office printers cope well with RGB (sRGB) colors, a lot of inkjet > printers even better than with CMYK colors, because they're optimized for > home dummy use. > > But (as Christoph pointed out) your printer can be as great as it goes, > you'll never get a similar color impression if your monitor's set to some > extreme setting - and most monitors that I saw outside of the graphical > branch are set to "nonsense" settings, e.g. max contrast. > > Greetlings from Lake Constance! > Hraban > --- > http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ > http://wiki.contextgarden.net > https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) > > > ______________________________**______________________________** > _______________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > > maillist : [email protected] / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/** > listinfo/ntg-context <http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context> > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : > http://foundry.supelec.fr/**projects/contextrev/<http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/> > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ______________________________**______________________________** > _______________________ >
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