Is there a Digital Color Absolute Standard??

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donkesler
Jul 3, 2003
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Is there a color standard to set the colors of all devices.

If I sent a photo file to 10 color labs and got the same print back from each, then the problem would be solved. I would just take the file and the print and adjust my monitor to look identical and then adjust all my input and output devices to give thesame results.

Without that standard, a monitor and printer would be involved when I calibrate the printer or the monitor and scanner whenever I try to calibrate the scanner. You can obtain consistency within your own tools, but everyones would be different when you tried to take you files to someone else’s facilities.

If everyone used the same standard, I could take my photo file to anyone’s printer and get the same results. And same for scanner or camera.

Does this kind of standard exist and if it does where can I find it?

And if not, how do we get one?

Don

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Mike Russell
Jul 4, 2003
Don wrote:
Is there a color standard to set the colors of all devices.
If I sent a photo file to 10 color labs and got the same print back from each, then the problem would be solved. I would just take the file and the print and adjust my monitor to look identical and then adjust all my input and output devices to give thesame results.
Without that standard, a monitor and printer would be involved when I calibrate the printer or the monitor and scanner whenever I try to calibrate the scanner. You can obtain consistency within your own tools, but everyones would be different when you tried to take you files to someone else’s facilities.

If everyone used the same standard, I could take my photo file to anyone’s printer and get the same results. And same for scanner or camera.

Does this kind of standard exist and if it does where can I find it?
And if not, how do we get one?

Short answer – yes, there is such a standard. Check out <http://www.color.org/>.

Alas, the long answer begins with the simple fact that, though some improvement in color handling is possible with profiles, in the real world an absolute standard color is simply not possible.

For a number of reasons, the 10 printing companies you mention will produce 10 acceptable, but discernably different images.



Mike Russell
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MSD
Jul 4, 2003
in article
wrote on 7/3/03 2:00 PM:

Is there a color standard to set the colors of all devices.
If I sent a photo file to 10 color labs and got the same print back from each, then the problem would be solved. I would just take the file and the print and adjust my monitor to look identical and then adjust all my input and output devices to give thesame results.
Without that standard, a monitor and printer would be involved when I calibrate the printer or the monitor and scanner whenever I try to calibrate the scanner. You can obtain consistency within your own tools, but everyones would be different when you tried to take you files to someone else’s facilities.

If everyone used the same standard, I could take my photo file to anyone’s printer and get the same results. And same for scanner or camera.

Does this kind of standard exist and if it does where can I find it?
And if not, how do we get one?

Don



Once the final file is in a good working space …
just obtain the output profile
for the output you will be using

convert to that … each time – for each different output device.

MSD
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Warren Sarle
Jul 4, 2003
"Don" wrote in message
Is there a color standard to set the colors of all devices.

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