This one time, at band camp, Peter Chubb wrote: > How do you people do colour matching?
With great difficulty and much expensive kit. > It seems to me there are three different bits to worry about, when > trying to print a file. > -- the colours in the file > -- the colours as displayed on the screen (e.g., by ImageMagick or > the Gimp) > -- the colours as printed. What's more, your monitor uses the RGB colourspace while your printer (ordinarily) uses the CMYK colourspace. > What do I have to do to my system to be sure that > -- the colours I see on the screen are what's really in the file? > Different monitors look different, even if they're supposed to have > the same Colour Temperature. Without this, one can't easily > adjust colour balance, etc., and have the result what one wants. > -- the colours I get on the printout match what's in the file? You need to calibrate your monitors, then calibrate your printer (which should already have a calibration profile supplied) then supply both profiles to the printer. > So, suggestions for tuning all this stuff, please! I'm using Debian > unstable on AMD64, X86, SPARC and IA64, and my wife's using a powermac > running MacOSX. Seriously, use Lucy's Mac and Photoshop. I'm not sure how well GIMP et al are at the calibration stuff these days, but I suspect it's a world of pain. -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net "Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal" - Martin Luther King, Jr. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
