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Erika Yanovich reports: <<I wonder if anyone out there solved this annoying
problem: the color on the screen is different than the color of the ouput
from our office printer (Tektronix laser) and the output from a digital
printer (we use a few). There should be an app for it. Before my graphic
designer goes mad...>>
Not a trivial problem, for a variety of reasons, including the fact that the
"gamuts"--the range of possible colors--of your monitor and of both printers
don't completely overlap. There's no easy solution, particularly if you're
working in Windows, but the simplest solution is to talk to your digital
printers to find out their recommendations; you won't be the first client
who's run into this problem, and they should have a decent workaround if not
an outright solution. One thing that typically helps is to find out what ICC
color profile to use with your monitor and printer so as to match their
output devices most closely.
--Geoff Hart, geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
(try ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca if you get no response)
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