From: Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Colors: printing vs. on screen
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:33:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <381341F6-C924-44F8-9BE5-A741F084756E@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DFDE6C9.6070300@tu-harburg.de>
> 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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-19 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-19 11:53 Erik Margraf
2011-06-19 12:03 ` Hans Hagen
2011-06-19 12:08 ` Christoph Redecker
2011-06-19 19:33 ` Henning Hraban Ramm [this message]
2011-06-21 20:28 ` Erik Margraf
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