Factors that Affect Color Printing

Monitor Settings

The brightness and contrast controls on your monitor can change how your document looks on-screen. Additionally, your monitor color temperature influences how "warm" or "cool" the colors look.

NOTE

Several of the Color Matching options make reference to your monitor’s Color Temperature. Many monitors allow the color temperature to be adjusted through the monitor’s control panel.

There are several settings found on a typical monitor:

• 5000k*

Warmest; yellowish lighting, typically used in graphics arts environments.

• 6500k*

Cooler; approximates daylight conditions.

• 9300k*

Cool; the default setting for many monitors and television sets.

*k = degrees Kelvin, a measurement of temperature

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