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Originally Posted by Canonite
So basically cameras and monitors etc use an RGB colour space, the size of that gamut varies hugely. For example when you shoot a RAW image and then compress it into a jpeg, the colour space compressed down too.
Printers don’t use RGB, their colour space is made of CMYK so the ICC profiles are vital to ensure the perfect colour match is achieved.
Think of the red colour scheme of Coca-Cola of the purple colour of Cadbury, it’s vital those iconic brand colours are accurately reproduced.
I think there are some newer RGB printers but even so, they still require an accurate ICC profile for that media and the output monitor would have to be calibrated correctly too.
Some high end Nikon’s can shoot a 24 bit colour gamut, but it’s invisible to the human eye, even if you have a monitor that’s capable of displaying it all. Lol
It’s quite a deep subject really
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Thank you, I need to get my head around this! Using the camera is only half of it!
So the print shop should easily be able to tell me the print profile?
I may be being unfair to them in saying this, but I imagine they won't know.
Is there a way I can help them find it?
They couldn't explain why my wave photo didn't print like the previewed image they showed me before committing to print.