So I print out a color calibration image
On photo paper, the gray bar on the left is too dark (more medium gray than light gray), yellow is my favorite car color (too yellow), the cysn is too cyan, the green and magenta are too dark, the red is not quite red enough, and the purple is too dark. Hey, white and black are fine!
I have done a small amount of fiddling with those six controls, but I must not be turning them up enough to make an obvious improvement.
I cannot see that adjusting the Color Options changes anything at all.
Get an Apple machine (one with a builtin monitor, like a laptop or iMac). Apple is serious about color quality, and if all the hardware (other than the printer) comes from them, the color will be about as correct on the screen as is possible.
ReplyDeleteI say that as an Apple user who uses an external monitor (49" Samsung 4K TV). I just don't care that much myself, perhaps because I don't have that good a color sense.
Your printer uses 4 colors cymk to print what is shown on the screen in 3 colors rgb.
ReplyDeleteThey will never match exactly because there is always some conversion
John Henry