Thanks! I'll go for the calibration and some trials in CMYK colors for
printing.

kind regards
Erik

2011/6/19 Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>

> 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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