Weird Graphics Issue

Calibrated monitors are nice, but only our re-touch artists got them. Being consistent is a big deal too.
Even though my screen is crap, I can tell if a program has been assigned the wrong color profile. There is a bug in Windows 7 where any gray scale image I made in Photoshop Adobe RGB, would appear purple when viewed in a sRGB browser, Really Purple! Once I set all of my profiles to AdobeRGB, problem solved!

Now that's the weird thing, it would appear that all of my colour profiles are exactly the same... The annoying part is that I've never had any issue like this before, I mean ever...

See when we switched to 10 thats when we noticed our plots doing that. If I plot in greyscale from autocad it doesnt come out purple at all. Its only when I use color and there is grey in the plot. Still going to see if I can set everything to AdobeRGB.

Yip, calibrated printers and scanners too.

This is mainly done for print companies / graphics designers / people that do archival (museum etc) digital conversion work.
There's special colorimeters for that where specialists go and ensure that scanners, printers and monitors are color matched to within a specific margin of error.

MIND BLOWN

Any decent one's for free? :joy:

Also remember to check not just your work files color settings but also the export color settings. It is also worth making test projects with different color space selections to see which one will reproduce the look of the original as it seems like you do not necessarily have access to the original work files.

Hell Yeah!
I worked in a print shop called 'Color Bureau'. Our shit was calibrated to 110%. Our laser drum scanner looked like this and the guy who ran it used all of those knobs.

The guy who did color retouching had a $50,000 Mac in a windowless office painted a special color correct shade of gray. He had a $1,000 colorimeter on his $10,000 monitor. The output calibrations to the 4 color film image setters were changed depending on the final printing process. I maintained the laser copiers so if a designer needed a print of a Coca-Cola ad, the printer would make the EXACT color of Coca-Cola red.

Even though the Coca-Cola red color is a secret formula too.

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You mean just a six digit hex code?

blam!

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Nope.

Most printing uses 4 color (cyan, yellow, magenta & black) printing plates. There is a method called spot color where a designer can have 1 color or as many plates as they want, but typically spot color is 4c + 1 special color.

Coca-Cola provides specially formulated inks or paints whenever they make stuff. Sure it's possible to reverse engineer what the RGB value is, but you are not allowed to use that or Coke will send their Logo Police to speak to you.

Interesting
I am familiar with cmyk as a GD myself, and just to be quick and lazy usually uses just the hex codes to input the exact color I want, just to export as cmyk... Perhaps I am forgetting something important...

Nah. It's just that some companies are anal about their old school ways.

I did color and graphics at Black+Decker. I got them to migrate from FedEx-ing films mounted on illustrator boards to emailing PDF's. But I couldn't get them to move away from Munsell color, when the rest of the world uses Pantone.

There are Pantone, RGB, CYMK & Hexadecimal colors, but Munsell is HSV (hue, saturation, value).

I would have to order sheets of paper painted with a Munsell color. They cost $100 per 8.5x11 sheet and had weird annotations. Then I would cut out 1" color chips and mail them to the factory. My response was usually "What the hell is Munsell?" I had to talk to the manufacuter on the phone (to avoid trouble) - "Just use Pantone 384C to get close, then match the chip."