Topic: Spectraview and NEC 2690wuxi2 calibration issues (Read 2831 times)

T van der Byl · « **on:** July 28, 2014, 11:33:21 am »

I have calibrated my monitor and Epson 4900 printer a dozen times. I use Photoshop CS6. I can not seem to get what I see on my monitor be produced by the printer. In Spectra view the colour space continues to default back to sRGB despite the fact that I have selected RGB via the monitors settings. s soon as I calibrate the monitor it also defaults to sRGB. The option to select RGB in the Spectra view SETUP has a red cross against it. any suggestions?

D Fosse · « **Reply #1 on:** July 28, 2014, 12:17:24 pm »

Never mind all that. As they say, you're barking up the wrong tree.

What you want is the native setting. Those other settings, sRGB, Adobe RGB and so on are all emulations, restricting the monitor's gamut in one way or another (yes, even Adobe RGB). You don't want that.

If you don't get a match, your calibration targets are wrong (or you're using the wrong printer/paper profile). Set your targets so that you have a visual match between monitor white and paper white. Then set a reasonable contrast ratio (black level) that matches the paper. Very few paper/ink combinations exceed 300:1.

Or, of course, your "non-matching" colors are simply out of gamut (either display or printer) - meaning one can reproduce it and the other can't.