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Colors don't match printed

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
November 9, 2017
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Dear all

I'm not an expert using photoshop but I make some work for our company Intranet such as creating new icons.

I have an issue that I cannot udnerstand, maybe someone can help.

I've created some icons with backgoung color (R:124 G:188 B:217) that I need to insert into Powerpoint. They will be located inside Powerpoint boxes with same color and in the screen seems ok. Color exactly match.

The icon is a standard 72dpi png file, RGB color.

The problem is when I print the Powerpoint document - the colors are tottally different.

I was reading about similar issues, and it seems it's somehow related with Color amangement within Photoshop.

I already tried to create new icons, with the same color, CMYK and RGB versions. With different color profiles (Monitor RGB working space and all Color Management Policies turned off) but I cannot print the ppt with same colors.

Can you please help?

Manyh thanks in advance,

João

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Derek Cross

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See if ensuring you're using the same Color Space – say sRGB – on both the logo and background helps.

joaocanudoAuthor

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That was the color profile I was using by default in Photosop - I cheged to Monitor profile (it's saying when we choose that option it will disable color management).

I believe Powerpoint dont' have color management so I cannot add that anywhere.

Derek Cross

Community Expert

The screen shot (above) shows the drop-down (from the gear wheel icon) in Powerpoint indicating the choice of Color spaces.

Derek Cross

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It's physics – the gamut (range of colours) is much wider in the RGB color space than in CMYK which has a about a third less colours – bright orange and bright green, for example, can't be reproduced in CMYK. As it happens the light blue you have selected can be printed but may appear differently on different devices depending on how they are being managed.

joaocanudoAuthor

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Thanks for the reply Derek

So basically you're saying it's not possible to match the icon with the Powerpoint box when printing?

If I create a new icon using CMYK, (in this case C:40 M:0 Y:0 K15) I will get the same result right?

What do you advise? Maybe best idea is to remove backgounf of all icons?

Derek Cross

Community Expert

I screen shot might help.

It depends on how much variance you're getting, what is causing it, how vital it is, and how much effort you're prepared to put in to overcoming issues.

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