How can I calibrate my PC screen so that the Costco prints will come out with exactly the same color and tone.

Question

How can I calibrate my PC screen so that the Costco prints will come out with exactly the same color and tone.

Answer 1

Can't do it without some accelerrated software and hardware. your screen is RGB and the colors on your prints are either cmyk or pantone depending on the cost.

Answer 2

If you calibrate the screen, you need something like a "calibration spider" which hangs over the monitor and creates a monitor profile to "naturalise" the colours.



Try a Digi photo magazine for advers, they tend to advertise in them

Answer 3

initially, it is the image fashion designer who's to blame for shade. be careful in the experience which you, with the aid of fact the fashion designer, are finding a shade in RGB. even nevertheless you turn you shade pallet to CMYK, it is nevertheless RGB while viewing on the video exhibit with the aid of fact all video exhibit contraptions are RGB. it somewhat is right to calibrate the video exhibit which will help, yet is rarely one hundred%. Your perfect guess is to have a Pantone shade swatch e book that lists cmyk values or use Pantone spot colors and convert them to cmyk. you may get a Pantone to CMYK swatch e book to boot. it is likewise important to comprehend that shade on a coated floor seems diverse than on an uncoated floor as ink is absorbed greater on an uncoated floor. so which you're able to could desire to have the properly suited swatch e book. Now, if the fashion designer does each and everything wisely, suits the colour to the swatch e book and has a calibrated video exhibit and the colour comes out somewhat off, then it is the printers issue. Printers tend to gang run jobs. which potential they place your interest with yet another interest or perhaps different jobs on teh same sheet. we could say some jobs could be heavy in magenta, yet yours is dominant in blue. it somewhat is a risk that the printer could strengthen the magenta on a press run and this could bypass away your blue finding off somewhat...greater like crimson. good printers do stay away from this, yet I even have seen it. If in any respect a risk, you desire to work out in case you are able to time table a press examine - if the interest is serious on shade or an somewhat costly interest. this way you are able to bypass in to the printers and watch him get the interest waiting and have him pull you a press sheet as quickly as he has the ink waiting to print. i comprehend this answer is somewhat long winded answer, yet desire to offer you somewhat bit background on the are.

Answer 4

That has about as much to do with the screen as the stars do with your destiny...unless you believe in horoscopes, in which case I pity you.



Presumably "Costco Prints" are digital photos that you pay Costco to print for you...in which case, you have to talk to your camera, or atleast the operator using it.

Answer 5

Try using this program, from microsoft, it really helps to make the print better, I am not sure about the color or tone..Good Luck>>

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/Step1.aspx

Answer 6

ummm... There is not much you can do.



Due to the way monitors are designed, it is very difficult to get it even close to perfect.



Plus it takes a special card and specially designed monitor to reproduce more accurate colors.