End-to-End Color Management Tutorial?

[casterle]

Is there a tutorial that covers Color Management in Affinity products from document creation to getting printed output that matches my design?

If it matters, I'm on Windows.

[walt.farrell]

Are you printing it yourself (home printer), or sending it out to be professionally printed?

What are you printing? Photos, books, ...?

Which Affinity application(s) are you using?

[thomaso]

29 minutes ago, casterle said:

End-to-End

… from document creation to getting printed output

Concerning your literal limitation of colour management "from document creation to getting printed output" it is rather simple, for instance: Choose a colour profile that matches the printer hardware + the print medium (paper) and set this as the export profile in the export dialog window. To avoid the need to convert colours when exporting the print file set this same profile as the document's colour space, too.

Although print colors are never RGB, but always CMYK (or additional colors), some home/office/desktop printers prefer print data in RGB color space, while many others, especially professional printing services, accept either RGB or CMYK, or require CMYK. Check or ask if a particular color space and profile is preferred for your specific print process.

As for the first "end", color management starts even before the document is created. It mainly involves your monitor. This Affinity Spotlight article can show different aspects: https://affinityspotlight.com/article/display-colour-management-in-the-affinity-apps/

[casterle]

On 6/10/2022 at 3:00 PM, walt.farrell said:

Are you printing it yourself (home printer), or sending it out to be professionally printed?

What are you printing? Photos, books, ...?

Which Affinity application(s) are you using?

I'm printing at home, but the final copy will (probably) be printed professionally.  I'm trying to create business cards for our church. The logo on the cards must be scalable for other purposes like banners for events. I've done everything in AD, the logo all vector; no pixel layers.

I'm confused about what I set and where I set it. I started another thread here: