dpullum wrote:
Your printer program probably has sliders that is the key as is the viewing light temperature.
Rember that your monitor radiates light and your print image absorbs light. The monitor can be calibrated to look close to the actual object just using the built-in calibration programs or wasting money on calibration gadgets. [I use paint color chart photo and the actual color chart]
I print the image and compare... humm... reds are a bit pale... OK... I use the print program sliders to tweak and print again... eventually, I have my settings. I record them just in case a W-10 update eradicates all my passwords and setting [oops irritation is showing]. Then I look at my print in the living room where the bulb is "warm" oh,oh, looks different than in my computer area where the bulb is a 5200K ... yes, the perception of the printed image changes with the light where the image is viewed. Then again the visual memory of what the images you photograph fades... you and others do not notice anything that is not a significant difference... Few people go to the trouble or are capable of calibrating the end result, the eye/brain combo.
Lighting:
https://blog.lexjet.com/2014/06/30/finding-the-best-lighting-for-color-calibration-and-print-evaluation/
I just go to Walmart and get bulbs marked as 5200K That is close enough. OOPS! wall color... my walls for viewing are ceiling white... with 2 oz of white pigment added... yep Valspar [surly others too] allows tinting so tint WHITE.
Yes, the print will still look OK in your living room with warm 3200K and light green walls. You will know but others will not. If you go to a consular and complain about the fine points of the color of prints of a nude when viewed in different rooms with different color walls and light bulbs ... well, then you will be labeled as an excessive compulsive or as Trump would diagnose ... a "real nut job."
Your printer program probably has sliders that is ... (
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Are you stating that you adjust the image that is to be printed on a one-to-one basis instead of creating and saving a monitor calibration profile that matches your printer output?