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| Feb 28, 2014 at 4:11 | comment | added | user2719 | Likewise, printers are calibrated for as "flat" a response as possible given the ink and paper used (white the paper being "white" and non-bleeding maximum ink coverage being Dmax). Additive and subtractive colour spaces are not identical, and inks aren't perfect (they're subject to the laws of physics regarding absorption/emission). Soft proofing with the printer profile shows you (within limits) the shifts that will occur on that printer with that paper, allowing you to compensate with image adjustments. The resulting RGB file (or CMYK if you do your own seps) is what you send to print. | |
| Feb 28, 2014 at 4:05 | comment | added | user2719 | There is a lot of misinformation here. Perceptually, a person working under a D50 environment working with a monitor calibrated to 5000K will see the same white as a person working under D65 with a monitor calibrated to 6500K. That's the whole point of standard environments. D65 is supposed to be "purer", as it compensates somewhat for reduced sensitivity in human vision at some parts of the colour spectrum, but it my experience that only matters for metamerism. One calibrates a monitor to achieve as close as possible to a "flat" response. (cont'd) | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 21:08 | history | edited | TFuto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 17, 2014 at 21:00 | history | answered | TFuto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |