Digital BW, The Print

Colin - I think that finding the proper viewing light can be a problem  You
have to decide what color temperature to which you want to correct the
images first, and that can be a problem:  I have an expensive GTI
transparency/print viewer next to my monitor, and both are set to 5000 K.
The light for viewing prints or transparencies is adjustable on the viewer,
so you're able to match the monitor's output pretty closely if you want.
But with many inks (especially those from the 2200 or others that exhibit
any metamerism, a print that looks great as an image on the monitor and as a
print under the viewer's 5000K lamps will NOT look the same under tungsten
light.  

I try to decide how most people will be looking at a print and balance the
color for that situation, given the inks and paper that I'm using.  You
could try buying a cheap fluorescent fixture and getting a lamp that matches
the color to which you've set your monitor's white point if that match is
important.


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