Digital BW, The Print

D50 is the graphics standard for print illumination.  Lighting booths are
most often D50.  When you make ICC profiles, your spectrophotometer most
likely illuminates the test chart with D50 illumination. It¹s logical to
have all of these consistent.  Having said all that, the human eye is very
good at adapting for differences in white point.  As a result, you are
likely better off using your display¹s native whitepoint when calibrating it
as it will likely produce a more consistent greyscale.  Even if you choose
to switch to D50 you will get used to it very quickly and soon a flick to
D65 will look awful at first.  Where do you display your prints?  If indoors
and lit with normal household lighting then the illumination will more than
likely be way below D50...



From: joaskild <joaskild@...>
Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:05:44 -0000
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [Digital BW] D50 or D65 calibration prints & screen calibration?

 
 
 


I have always calibrated my screen to D65 (with basicocolor display + eye
one pro) and also 
the prints profil with basicocolor print3c. I am having a problem that my
printprofels are 
always a bit to dark and I called to Basicocolor for adwice. They told that
I should use D50 on
the screen and prints profils and that they would be lighter? Does anybady
know what 
happens if I change all to the D50 Daylight. Will all my files now look a
bit more yellow? I don
´t totaly understand this. When I stodyed photography we learnd that D65 was
normal 
daylight. 

So before I start to change my profile workflow to D50, I like to ask if its
a good idea and 
what changes I can expickt.

My main problem was that to profiles are a bit darker wich I just fix by a
curve in Photoshop 
but when you make printing via Indesign you have a problem.

Thanks

Joakim

 


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