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Originally Posted by DavyG  Do you find that, using the calibrator, you get a good colour match between the monitor display and your prints? |
Yes - within reason. The gamut of a monitor is different to that of an inkjet printer. A monitor can produce colours that a printer can't and vise versa. For a start a monitor uses the additive colours RGB and a printer the subtractive complementaries CMY. With a monitor you add colours to a black backgound, but with a printer you filter out colours from a white backgound. Given the huge difference in fundamental technologies it's surprising the results can be so good.
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If so, do you allow your printer or photoshop to control the colour of the prints?
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I produce a printer profile for Photoshop to use and set the printer driver to no colour management. This is the normal way of profiling a printer.
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As you can tell, I'm not too clued up on this, I've been getting good results when printing but I think that's more through luck than judgement.
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I think if you stick to the printer manufacturers' inks and papers you can expect to get reasonable results. If like me, you use third party inks and papers, then you're venturing into uncharted waters and have to sort printer+ink+paper profiles yourself.
Jim