color matching screen to printed copy

[BluesCruiser]

If someone could help me here, I would be eternally grateful. I am at my wits end. PLEASE can someone figure out how to get the screen colors, ( IIyama monitor ) to match the printed out put ( tektronix 850 ) using CorelDRAW either 9, 10 or 11 ?

Thanks,
Danny D.

 

[melankie]

sorry, not an answer, but to add to your question.
I am having the same trouble, but I am also having great difficulty in getting colours to export to flash, photoshop or illustrator, without changing to a totally new colour. Is there a reason for the difference?
maybe somebody could answer both questions?

 

[peterasf]

We are professional printers and would like to give you a short reply :
in a professional situation (i.e. high-end monitors at high end prices) a kind of 'screen-mouse' is used to scan the screen colors and compare them to the standard color, generally the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM (PMS) which is world-wide used. To modify the colors on your screen, you either need to change your monitor settings or the software settings in the monitor controller card in your computer. If you would get this sorted out, the next step is to calibrate your printer. This is even a bigger problem considering, the different kinds of printers and media used (laser, ink-jet, whiteness of the paper, paper type, ...). We can assure you that printed proofs ressembling almost perfectly the presumed result on a press (offset, screen, digital) are very costly an dcan only bet obtained with $$$$ investments.


Conclusion : to get matching screen colors and printed colors is only possible in a professional situation with high investments and a permanent calibration of the equipment.

Regards,
Peter Warmoes
ASF Printing - Belgium

 

[melankie]

Thank you peterasf for that but it was a little too high end for me but I have found the answer to my oun question. All I had to do was go File/tools/Colour Managment and tick off "display simulated printer colours" then all of the colours used on screen changed and matched the colours in flash, I could even open both programs side by side and they were identical. I cannot tell you how pleased I was, I used to think that corel was just different from all the others and I would change/swap the colours of everything once exported. I don't know how I could have been using corel draw for over 2 years and never have found/or been shown this.

jeff