Thread: The soft option in colour management

It's a common misconception that colour management involves getting your printer to reproduce exactly what you see on your screen. It's physically incapable of doing this because the two devices use different physical systems to display colour, and your monitor can display many more colours than your printer can print.



The solution is soft proofing, which involves using colour management to make your monitor emulate the colour characteristics of your printer. The monitor shows you what the printer is capable of, not the other way around. The more advanced photo-editing applications, including Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro Photo X2, can show you a soft proof before you commit to ink and paper.