Re: Monitor White Point-5000 or 6500K?
Re: Monitor White Point-5000 or 6500K?
- Subject: Re: Monitor White Point-5000 or 6500K?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 11:52:52 EST
In a message dated 1/6/03 2:13:49 AM, email@hidden writes:
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I'm trying to get a sense of what people are using/recommending for monitor
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white point. From what I can gather, there seems to be two camps...6500K
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and 5000K. Those using the latter are mainly concerned with matching press
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proofs that they're viewing under a 5000K viewing box. I use 6500 in a
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profiled and color managed workflow and do mostly photography-related imaging
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and have had no problems. Yet I have one colleague who swears that anything
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other than 5000K is heresy and I should not even think of recommending
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6500K to photographers. My sense is that he is not working in a fully
profiled
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environment and is still relying on last minute visual tweaks to match
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a proof.
MatchPrint backgrounds are 5000k yellow, photo paper is 6500k white...
there's little reason for a photographer to calibrate to 5000k even if the
files will be previewed for contract proofs on the monitor at times; the
press/proofer profile will account for that quite nicely.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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