Different brightness of screens - Problem?

[Bauzi]

Hey there,

I have a Windows laptop and a Macbook. I prefer my Macbook for every day stuff due to it's great screen. The whole desktop just looks way better and more lit. From time to time I also make some graphical work. Yesterday I printed a poster that I made on my Macbook. The colours where way different than the ones on my screen.

I realize that it can be the fault of my printer and CMYK settings, but whatever: The point is that I worked on a specific brightness settings of a screen and the results may vary on other hardware. My work will look different on other monitors. I tend to edit a lot of dark videos and working on a specific cd (brightness of a screen) value could be very bad. I remember complaints about my videos from LCD-monitor users when I worked on dark scenes with a CRT-monitor.

I guess my Win laptop has a cd of 200 (per "I forgot"), my Macbook has 250 and my new ordered monitor will have 300.


You can't make it right for every hardware out there, but there might be some average cd values that I should consider to work with. Does somebody know such an average value? I'm speaking of laptops and monitors. No TVs or iPods or whatever.

What do you do? Ignore this "problem"?

[post-it]

i have found GIMP to work and render the same on my MAC, Linux MAC, PC System 7 and Ubuntu 6.10 PC's;
you must have downloaded a bad driver for your printer!

[Bauzi]

Well I made the prints in a copy shop and before that I had some messed up prints of a photoseries that I made and I printed them in a photo store. They say that this happens everytime and that you have to adjust the image afterwards for your needs.

There are tons of CMYK settings how the fuck should I know if they use the same ones that I have in my Photoshop settings?

[post-it]

.. perhaps we're being set-up for this problem: might i suggest placing a "dot" or
"square" of a color somewhere in the pictures you've got -- so you can tell if the
colors are going to match er not!??

i.e.

the DOT can be anywhere and almost any size. this way, they can
not "jerk you around with lies" because you have your "proof" right
in front of them

color matching; no one is that frick'n blind

[Bauzi]

Nice idea..., but it would be still tricky to compare it with your own eyes.

Perhaps I should use a picture of colour bars and compare them with a well printed version of them?