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Colours to display same as printing

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
February 14, 2025
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Up until a few years ago I had no issues with my CMYK colours displaying on the screen as they would when printed.

Now they are vastly different - eg. to get a dusty orange, the cmyk values show on my screen as quite a bright orange. Even viewing after export as PDF it's the same bright colour. We had to go through a lot of swatches to get it to print the right colour.

I've now had to change printers and will most likely be using online services. I'd just like to feel confident that what I see on the screen is as close as possible to the printed product.

Would really appreciate some help in setting up indesign settings to show this!

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Robert at ID-Tasker

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@millyhowell_GD

Have you calibrated your monitor?

Have you updated system or InDesign recently?

If you want to be sure that your prints will be correct - you have to request a "print proof" - without it - you can't refuse to accept final printed material.

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millyhowell_GDAuthor

Participating Frequently

it's happening across 3 different mac computers. One is brand new and still having the same problem. Problem has been happening for 2 years so there have been multiple updates over that time

Robert at ID-Tasker

Legend

it's happening across 3 different mac computers. One is brand new and still having the same problem. Problem has been happening for 2 years so there have been multiple updates over that time

By @millyhowell_GD

Not sure I understand?

So for two years you were working on un-calibrated system?

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

Does your output colors profile correspond to the requirements of your printer?

Do you use RGB images—as recommended in InDesign—with the correct RGB color profile?

Is the CMS correct set up?

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millyhowell_GDAuthor

Participating Frequently

these are the colour settings.
Transparency blend space is document CMYK
swatch is setup as below

Peter Spier

Community Expert

Your coolor settings are set to ignore embedded CMYK profiles and preserve numbers. In my ipinion this is a huge mistake. Unless your CMYK images also happen to be in Fogra 93 Coated, you are guaranteed to have some sort of color shift.

I like to think of color profiles as telling you how to pronounce words in the local dialect -- same spelling can be peronounced very differntly depending on where you are. Same color numbers can appear differnt depen ding on the profile, wheich describes the ink/paper/press combination for CMYK output.

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