Monitor calibration and printing ?

[Admiral Huddy]

I decided to buy a Spyder Pro 5 and in conjunction with DS colour labs tech support, I have calibrated my monitor and installed their colour print profiles.

I have followed their guide here:
http://dscolourlabs.co.uk/about/Technical_Support

I sent them a few test pictures and they said they match their print profiles so all good.

However, As part of the calibration process, my screen brightness was turned down from 59 to 24 and the white point (colour temp) to about 6400. As a result, the screen looks much darker and the whites look very grey.

Also, if you look at their instructions carefully, you use the calibrated sRGB ICC colour profile and export using their print profiles.. So really, you still aren't working with colour scheme of their profiles.

DS -

If you have your screen calibrated just edit in SRGB and export to the paper profile and you are done. The idea is the print comes back looking like the image before you click export.

Is this right? Doesn't seem to make sense.. Has anyone else gone through a similar exercise?

 

[RussD]

It all depends on how much light is in the room when you calibrate....I calibrate in a darkish room so my Spyder 4 Elite gives me 5800Kelvin..During the day it will give me 6500K.
I wish my monitor brightness was down to 24. Well it is on my 22" Samsung, but on my 24" Dell it is at 43. Still quite Good. The lower your brightness and Delta E the better your Prints and images.
My Delta E White point is 0.6 & 50% Grey is 0.3 Excellent in my book.

Yes, they are correct. You save your calibration with a name. Then after you need to set that into your Windows colour Management.

 

[RussD]

Here is how it is done....

https://pcmonitors.info/articles/using-icc-profiles-in-windows/