Re: Why D65 on monitors and D50 on lightbox?
Re: Why D65 on monitors and D50 on lightbox?
- Subject: Re: Why D65 on monitors and D50 on lightbox?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:51:47 EST
In a message dated 12/13/01 12:17:07 PM Eastern Standard Time,
email@hidden writes:
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Perhaps it has been mentioned before, if so please feel free to ignore this
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mail. In matters of optical brighteners and the use of UV filters I see
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something in addition: If filters are used to measure colors on paper with
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optical brighteners the colors and the paper behave as if there are no
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optical brighteners involved. But in reality, they are still there.
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Therefore, the proof in the lightbox looks brighter than it would look
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without OB. So I think it is necessary to tweak the monitor to a higher
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temperature if OB are involved. But what leads to better results: doing
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this
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before or after making the monitorprofile?
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My take on all this is to use one monitor profile, with my choice of
whitepoint, and to tweak the preview portion of my printer profiles as
desired to bring them into line with reality.
C. David Tobie