I believe this is because of the different panel technologies as IPS panels are know for having poor blacks due to bleed-through making images appear to have more of a light gray cast to them. Now the colors between the two are spot on although I do still see a difference in the blacks and dark grays. I have these two monitors right next to each other setup as a dual monitor display and I could always tell a rather large difference in color between the two with all photos, including my astro photos. The VA monitor, a Dell 3220DGF, was way off in the blues but grays and mid-tones were ok. This is apparently what drifts the most with IPS panels over time. The IPS monitor, a somewhat old HP ZR2440w which is known for having good color accuracy out of the box, was off a little bit in the red and green and very off in the grays, blacks, and white point. I ran calibration on two of my monitors, one a IPS and one a VA, and WOW what a difference a calibrated monitor makes. In Lightroom I do this by making a Virtual Copy so that I have my regular finished image, and a clone of it that is adjusted for printing.Īfter a long wait I just recently received my X-rite i1 in the mail thanks to all the slow downs with USPS. I save this corrected-for-print image as its own copy and send the image to the printer. I then make the needed adjustments to correct the image for printing.
That will give me a close approximation of how the image will look when printed. I then load my finished image into the soft proofing module of Photoshop or Lightroom, and load the color profile. For example, I use an Epson Stylus Pro 3800 and paper from Red River, so I go to their support site where I can download color profiles for their various papers that are matched to my 3800. Professional paper sources will provide ICC color profile files for their papers matched with popular printers. Soft Proofing involves taking your image and applying a color profile that was generated from the combination of the specific paper and printer that will be printing the image. You can do this in Photoshop or Lightroom.
Calibrating your images for printing involves a process called Soft Proofing. A Datacolor Spyder 5 is good for calibrating your monitor.įor prints, you need to do more than just have a calibrated monitor, which is just one requirement.
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