BenQ Paper Color Sync

[PicGeezer]

I just bought an SW272Q.  I'm driving it with a Macbook Air M3.  I'm intrigued by this app and wonder if anyone has figured out how to use it with Afinity Photo.  Any help/advice would be appreciated.

[Alfred]

Welcome back to the Serif Affinity Forums, @PicGeezer.

45 minutes ago, PicGeezer said:

I'm intrigued by this app and wonder if anyone has figured out how to use it with Afinity Photo.  Any help/advice would be appreciated.

Users who are familiar with BenQ Paper Color Sync (which I’m not) will no doubt want to know what specific problems you’ve encountered when trying to use it.

[walt.farrell]

5 hours ago, Alfred said:

Users who are familiar with BenQ Paper Color Sync (which I’m not)

In case you'd like to be: https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/software/paper-color-sync.html

@PicGeezer: I don't think that it will work with the Affinity apps, but I don't have it and so I can't be sure. The Affinity apps are already color-managed to adjust what they display to the color profile of the monitor, and with Paper Color Sync making further adjustments to the monitor color I think it's likely that Affinity's color management and BenQ's color management will conflict.

If it does work, you can probably just run it. If you've tried that and it doesn't "just work", then probably there's nothing you can do except use another editing application.

[PicGeezer]

Walt, thank you.  I'm self taught, so there are a lot of gaps in my knowledge.   I use Red River paper and their various paper-related ICCs, but I haven't been satisfied when soft proofing on my former Mac desktop.  I'm hoping that this new benq photo monitor will allow me to better soft proof.  If so, I'll save a lot on paper and pigments.  The benq app looks like an enhanced soft proofing, but not worth switching off AP.

[PicGeezer]

18 hours ago, Alfred said:

Welcome back to the Serif Affinity Forums, @PicGeezer.

Users who are familiar with BenQ Paper Color Sync (which I’m not) will no doubt want to know what specific problems you’ve encountered when trying to use it.

I will update here if I can figure it out.  The download dialog doesn't seem to allow for anything other than PS and LR.  I will ping benq and see if anything is in the works wrt AP.

[PicGeezer]

Upon further investigating Im pretty sure is a simplification for soft proofing.  Admittedly it’s in its early stages of release/use, but it seems to be initially oriented to users of smaller epson and canon printers, eg pixma pro 100, and a very limited selection of papers ( none of which I use).

It also does not support my monitor model.

So, not interested unless major enhancements are included.