Printing from an Imac

[mdijb]

According to Digilloyd on Macperformanceguide, Th current 5K imac are superb for viewing photographs.  However, one cannot calibrate this monitor as usual, and although images look terrific, the gamut of this monitor is not as wide and and NEC for example.

This leads to the question, that if one cannot calibrate the monitor, how does one get accurate color when printing?

Community experience?

MDIJB

[howardm]

what does 'as usual' mean for Mr. Lloyd?  I've not heard of any such issue.

[JeanMichel]

There is no problem with calibrating the iMac retina. Printing from it, using LR mostly, is no different than printing from my older MacPro and Cinema Display. Calibration done weekly, but really unnecessary as there is no difference from week to week. Soft proofing in LR allows for excellent work prints, fine prints require little, if any, further adjustments.
Jean-Michel

[rdonson]

The interwebs were all aflutter when Apple chose to use DCI-P3 instead of Adobe RGB as a color space.  Most of this seems to have calmed down over the last year.

For me I've seen no ill-effects of the choice and my X-Rite i1Display Pro recognizes the monitor and calibrates/profiles it nicely.  I have no complaints on my prints from my Epson SC P800.

Much ado about nothing???

[John Chardine]

Assume xrite's Color Munki also works?

[rdonson]

Assume xrite's Color Munki also works?

I have no experience with the Color Munki so I can't say.

[EricWHiss]

i1 display 2 calibrated my iMac without any trouble. I don't follow DL so don't know what his issue was but I had none.

[mkihne]

Assume xrite's Color Munki also works?

Yes. It's what I use.

Mike

[aaronleitz]

I recently bought a new iMac 5k for my main editing workstation. It sits right next to my NEC PA 302W and I have been unable to match the monitors. Both the color and contrast of the monitors are different with the iMac screen having a magenta cast and much more contrast. The NEC is calibrated with the tool that came with it and the iMac is calibrated with a colormunki. Both are X-rite calibration tools. Is it even possible to get two monitors to match?

[Danulon]

Regarding the original question: afaik iMac screens (same as MacBook Pro screens) display a smaller part of colour space in comparison to some other high end screens.

IMac screens can be calibrated which means that some colours are being "muted" in comparison to others. It works fine for me on my non 5k iMac. For those in need of any last colour hue a different screen with bigger colour space might be preferable, though.