Design experts would know that colors may appear differently from one screen to the next. So it would not be shocking for those who knew when they see their prints turning out not the same as the one they have been seeing so perfectly on screen. it is said that what you see on the monitor is being converted to a different “color space”. That is why the colors are not the same when it is already in print because it has undergone color spaces while printing.
One of the technical explanations for these is that the monitor sees images with the use of RGB (that’s Red, Green and Blue) colors, while most printing companies use CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black) and the Pantone Matching system. There goes your culprit. Try comparing the printed result from the one on screen. See any relation? Not even distant relatives.
The colors you wish to see on print changes in the process of printing due to the colors that are dominant on the screen that varies from that on the printers. Getting the result you wanted would mean a lot of color testing and even some knowledge on colors.
The printing industry is continuously spending money, and time, in trying to make a calibrated monitor. The WYSIWP (what-you-see-is-what-you-print), as they say. This is solved by adjusting the monitor to be able to reproduce what they think would come in the print result and on paper. One variable that is also needed is the inks that will be used. It would take a lot of combinations to be able to get the right colors on paper to match the screen colors. And of course, the ink quality plays a major role, as not all are of the same texture and do not produce exactly the same colors.
This is one of the problems that designers come across in color printing. Clients that come to these printing companies want only the best from them and it is to see the colors on designs as they see them in front of the screen. . With the appearance of many colored printers, color printing is constantly given a more advanced perspective. They print colors as close as they can make it as the one in the monitor.
Experts are endlessly studying colors to be able to come up with solutions to this color crisis. Some are somewhat successful although not perfectly so. Printing colors does not come cheaply so the trials and errors will have to cost to be made. All these to make colors accurate.
Florie Lyn Masarate got her first article printed in the school newsletter in the third grade. Her hobbies include reading any book she can get her hands on.
