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If anyone can give me some good links to explain this subject to a color dummy like me that would be much appreciated.
Basically here is why I'm confused at the moment. I recently upgraded to a high color accuracy 10-bit IPS display which supposedly comes with factory calibrated color, low delta, 98% rgb gamut, blah, blah. Great I thought. After initially pluging it in I found the display extremely dark compared to what I'm used to. All of my renderings, as well my desktop, any images on the internet, basically anything on the screen, looked extremely dark. After calibrating the display gamma through windows everything looked good again, the brightness and gamma of images looked nice and I noticed much deeper blacks and smoother color gradients compared to my previous display. Once again things were great. But then I tried to print something. With my previous setup what I saw on my screen and what my printer gave me were actually very close - I'm not an aficionado on color calibration so i probably just got lucky there. Now my printer prints much darker than what I see on my screen. Probably very close to what my screen looked like before I calibrated the gamma. So now I find myself doing all of those annoying manual brightening tricks with my printer to try to match my screen. I'm sure that's not the right way to do it.
So I guess my question is, should I just try to get used to a very dim looking desktop environment so I'm well matched to my printer? Or is there some kind of icc profile I can assign to my printer so it matches my monitor? I don't want to stare at dark looking images all day. I'm so confused.
Basically here is why I'm confused at the moment. I recently upgraded to a high color accuracy 10-bit IPS display which supposedly comes with factory calibrated color, low delta, 98% rgb gamut, blah, blah. Great I thought. After initially pluging it in I found the display extremely dark compared to what I'm used to. All of my renderings, as well my desktop, any images on the internet, basically anything on the screen, looked extremely dark. After calibrating the display gamma through windows everything looked good again, the brightness and gamma of images looked nice and I noticed much deeper blacks and smoother color gradients compared to my previous display. Once again things were great. But then I tried to print something. With my previous setup what I saw on my screen and what my printer gave me were actually very close - I'm not an aficionado on color calibration so i probably just got lucky there. Now my printer prints much darker than what I see on my screen. Probably very close to what my screen looked like before I calibrated the gamma. So now I find myself doing all of those annoying manual brightening tricks with my printer to try to match my screen. I'm sure that's not the right way to do it.
So I guess my question is, should I just try to get used to a very dim looking desktop environment so I'm well matched to my printer? Or is there some kind of icc profile I can assign to my printer so it matches my monitor? I don't want to stare at dark looking images all day. I'm so confused.
