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"With Spyder3Print it's not obvious how this helps me match the monitor display to the printer output since there does not appear to be any linkage between its calibration and my Spyder display profile.
Posted by Larisa Bolli on 21 July 2009 11:05 AM
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"This is a conceptual error; a ""misexpectation"". ICC profiles do not adjust your monitor to match your printer, or visa versa. Instead they accurately measure and define the state of all your devices, so that its possible for files to accurately prepared for any of them. Think of it this way: Instead of declaring that all shoes will be made to fit the king's foot (exactly what you do when you miscorrect all your monitors to imitate your printer's output) why not define a universal standard: the ""foot"? Now it will be possible to measure, with a ruler based on the universal foot, that your left foot is 10 inches long, while your right foot is 9 inches long, and based on measurements at the shoe factory, you can order shoes of the correct sizes, and without ever having been in the same place as the shoes. So by defining a universal measure of color, its similarly possible to measure all your monitors, and correct them to display the same with monitor profiles, then to print accurately to any printer (even at a remote location) which has been measured and defined, using a printer profile. | |
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