jh2

Great, thx guys! (that was quick

Glad it is only me who noticed this. Please fix this quick, as now my mac feels like an old windows program

ok thx thats interesting. On your point above, does this mean that my Canon ix6850 can produce 16m colours? It's standard CYMK with aditional K, so 5 inks. On where I'm at so far, is editing in RAW is prorez RGB (internally in Lightroom) (even though my monitor can only see sRGB (99%). If I print directly from Lightroom, print as sRGB / 8/Bit /using my created.icc profile. However I read that if further external editing needed (not in RAW) then save file as a TIff sRGB / 16bit, edit (say in photoshop/affinity photo etc.) The reason for this so I've read, is you get better gradiants (say the sky) Then when ready to print, just use 8bit/sRGB + the .icc profile. This I believe is the optimal/acurate/consistant I can achieve on my current set up.

Not that I could find. I've contacted i1studio (colormunki) directly, as far as I can tell, the x2 colour prints you produce for the colormunki to sample to create .icc file, are created in sRGB colour space. I wrote to them about this, so will see what they say. So if my screen can only display sRGB (profiled), my picture is being developed & saved in sRGB (Lightroom), my printer is now profiled in sRGB, I'm printing in sRGB (via Lightroom or Affinity) I would hope (and have seen) that the prints are coming out as acurately as I can possibly manage. If any can afford a AdobeRGB monitor and have every thing set up as above but in AdobeRGB I'd love to compare output with the same photo. Still for now, I'm happy to print out all my photos without any test prints as I know the results will be good (and save me a ton of money in printing)

Cool but the whole point of creating a .icc profile with a tool like colormunki is that you get consistant results across devices and papers. I also have other papers to print from, so I will create a new profile for these papers with the colormunki. This will create the most consistant replication of my screen across multiple outputs. The problem above is it's alway hit and miss and gets expensive to keep having to print out to find the best profile across various papers.

cheers for this. Seems others have concluded this as well https://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/adobe-rgb.htm

I get that, but this is just a technical point. Unless I can 'see' full AdobeRGB when I'm editing it, then as long as it prints as seen, then whats the point. Unless I can see AdobeRGB & edit in full AdobeRGB and then print in full AdobeRGB then if somewhere along the chain it's only in sRGB how can you know what your missing out on. Prob best would be to get a full AdobeRGB monitor and then send the (AdobeRGB) file to a pro printer with a very decent printer, then compare what you get at home in vanilla sRGB. I''d be interested to see these differences as I'm sure this kind of printer is very expensive. I get your point that I could 'blind' edit in AdobeRGB & send to the printer in AdobeRGB & then compare to the same in sRGB, but again unless you can see it along the chain, your not in control (& consistancy) of your output which is what I need most even if it fails to give it's best. Let me know if you try any more, would be interesting to know. Cheers

Wow there is quite a difference. It seem to my eyes (excluding the middle pic, the worst) that 1 & 3 are very similar but for brightness/contrast. Also I wonder if its diminishing returns unless your a pro, as you would need a new adobeRGB monitor (4K, HDR etc etc), printer etc etc to see this difference. Big bucks. My Dell monitor does 99% sRGB, so for now it will have to do. In addition the Photography club's projector (which digital photos are judged) probably only can show sRGB anyway, so pointless really.

@Lagarto Thx for your input. My main priority is to get print output near as posible to my calabrated screen. (as there is no point spening hours delevloping photos only to print them out differently) I've printed out out from both Lightroom and Affinity and both to my eyes are pretty much exactly the same as each other (including brightness of photo/screen). Within Affinty I used your surgested RGB 8 & sRGB document settings (As I check the files are developed as sRGB within Lightroom. In addition, my monitor cannot show AdobeRGB, so pointless changing this if I'm trying to match my monitor) There is a tiny colour shift to slightly more green when looking at the prints, but obviously my ambient light is changing and under a warm bulb look similar to the very slightly more red monitor colours. So in conclusion, I'm happy to print from Affinity, using these settings and my generated (colormunki) .icc print profile. Thanks both & I hope this helps someone else. Cheers all

Thx Both. I find colour matching a minefield. As Walt says, I'm trying to get as close as possible and by me adding another complexion (i.e using affinity Publisher) I'm adding to the variants. The original photos are created in Lightroom, so I might just bite the bullet and print directly from that (even though I don't like it) when I need colour critical prints. (I'm entering photo competitions). I will be printing using the .icc profile I've created with colormunki, and then just use this directly in lightroom. @lagarto you are right it is trial and error & gets expensive. I will be using exactly the same settings in each program (with the latest Canon driver) & the created .icc profile. I will do a test with Affinity Publisher with the 'RGB 8' & either sRGB/AdobeRGB settings and compare all 3 outputs (Calabrated screen in Lightroom, direct print from Lightroom, then Direct Print from Affinity. Thx again for your advice TBD / Jh2

@Lagarto thx for that, thats really helpful. I'll test with these settings. Cheers.

How do I approach Affinity directly if no one knows the answer to this? Thx

Hello I'm using Affinity Publisher to print out my Photos on my Canon ix6850. I have created a print profile (icc) using colormunki specifically for this printer and the paper I use. I want to create very accurate prints from my now profiled monitor and printer using Publisher My question is, within Publisher you go to 'Document setup' and can choose 'colour format' & 'colour profile'. What should these be set at to get acurate colour? (As when I got to print this document, I can select the .icc profile I've created within the print dialogue box) Should I also choose my .icc profile in the 'colour profile' (in Doc setup) or something else? What should the colour format be also? I'm trying to keep to as acurate colours to my printers .icc profile. If anyone could help I'd much appriciate it. Cheers p.s I'm using Mac & Mojave