6/20/2023 0 Comments Blurb bookwrightIf I didn't compare them with the screen images I probably wouldn't notice a difference, as it is slight. The color in my printed BookWright books is actually almost always spot-on. ![]() Don't know if screen is calibrated, but I'm not quite tech-y enough to get into that. I have the 2021 14" MacBook Pro with an M1 chip, so yes, I have retina display. Thanks to both of you, Richard MH and PrintMonkey. The only exception is fluorescence where invisible UV light is converted into visible light "during reflection" which will make the ink seem like its emitting a little bit of light when UV light is actually present. Soft proofing is supposed to simulate the effect of reflective media, but the monitor has to be accurate and the comparison has to be made under the same lighting standard that the monitor is set to use for display. Printing is always less bright and saturated than a monitor because a monitor emits light whereas ink can only reflect it. But this is less important than using a good monitor. The wider it is the more important it is to use 16 bit instead of 8 bit. You might want to be using AdobeRGB or similar wide gamut profile as working space. (Cheap monitors are only 6 bits per channel internally, and they tend to not even calibrate.) But wide gamut monitors tend to be better quality in general and don't have absurdly low bit depth. Wide gamut isn't as important as something with a decent bit depth. ![]() If you have an sRGB monitor you might need a better monitor and almost certainly need a colorimeter "puck" for calibration. If you have a Retina display then calibration is less important but may still be needed due to brightness/contrast issues. So you should see it if it's installed on the system. Affinity is supposed to pick up any system-installed ICC profiles.
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