There are three stages to ensuring that your inkjet printing is colour correct.

Stage 1 begins with the camera or scanner device. When they capture an image they all interpret colours in slightly different ways owing to varying light sources or reflectance. Many cameras and devices capture in a colour space called sRGB as a default which is ideal for your monitor and suits its ability to display the colours as closely as possible to the original.

Stage 2 is your monitor, one of the most overlooked areas of colour correction. All monitors interpret and display colours differently, very much like a television screen. How many times have you walked into an electrical store and viewed a row of television screens that all show different colours, densities and contrast levels? Profiling your monitor to show colours as true to life as possible means that any adjustments you make will make your images better and not worse.

Stage 3 is the most important step for printing – ICC Profiles. Without the use of an ICC Profile to harmonise the printer, paper and ink combination, you may experience great frustration when trying to produce digital inkjet prints that closely replicate what you see on the screen. One thing to remember is that due to your monitor being backlit, it will always look brighter and more vibrant than your print. We recommend dimming your monitor for a more accurate representation.