I spent $60 on a color calibration tool and my prints still look like garbage can green

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Used to think calibration tools were a total scam honestly. Thought you could just eyeball it and be fine. But reading this and seeing how simple things like brightness can throw everything off, I get it now. It makes sense that your screen needs to match what the printer actually puts down. Still a pain when you drop that kind of money and get bad results right off the bat though. Hopefully a few tweaks like Felix mentioned will sort it out.

felix_martin564d ago

Man that’s frustrating. Had the same issue with my first Spyder. Turned out my monitor brightness was way too high for printing. Dropped it to 120 cd/m2 and recalibrated, then my prints actually matched the screen. Also check your paper profile in the software. Using the wrong one can mess everything up big time. Might be a simple setting you’re overlooking.