With the diffusion of digital single-lens reflex cameras and improvements in the performance of high-quality inkjet printers, growing numbers of photographers and photo enthusiasts have begun retouching their digital photographs on a PC and printing at home. However, very few people have the color management skills required to execute the complex undertaking of matching printed colors to the colors displayed on a monitor.
Perfect color matching is basically impossible, even with professional equipment. This is due to differences in color reproduction methods between monitor output and printers, and due to discrepancies in the color gamut that can be rendered. The following section discusses various procedures and precautions for using ColorEdge series monitors to achieve as close a visual match as possible between printed and monitor output.
The images are assumed to be JPEG photographs taken with the color gamut set to Adobe RGB even though there are cases where the color space of the images is set to sRGB. sRGB settings will also be explained.
