If you have a Monitor Profile from an existing Printer using ColorMunki, and wish to calibrate a second Printer with the ColorMunki, keeping the old Profiles, can you use the same Monitor Profile with the new Printer or would it be innacurate, since the first Profile was determined using a print from the first printer. That Monitor Profile is the one that automaticaly comes up when turning on the computer.
There may be some confusion going on here. Your monitor profile is for your monitor and each monitor has its own profile that describes that particular monitor to apps that can use the profile. The printer profile is for that printer with that paper and that ink and is completely independent of the monitor profile.
Your monitor profile stays with the monitor that is belongs to. You can use whatever printer you want with that monitor and use the profiles for that printer, but you never use a monitor profile for a printer - any printer.
Thank you Peter for answering this idiotic question. I was just about to try to delete the thread, so as not to waste anyones time. I should have started my calibration process before asking because there aren't any prints associated with the monitor calibration - DUH!
Norman my love wrote:
Thank you Peter for answering this idiotic question. I was just about to try to delete the thread, so as not to waste anyones time. I should have started my calibration process before asking because there aren't any prints associated with the monitor calibration - DUH!
And why would you have a print associated with a display profile? T'ain't possible nor desirable. You can have a photo that you've edited on a particular setup but I would argue the purpose of the display profile is to calibrate the display to a standard which in theory means that photo would look the same on another calibrated system - all within the limits of hardware of course, you can't make a $90 Acer display look like an Eizo.
But the only relationship the display profile has to do with a print is how you adjust the print to look. The printer profile is created to make a printer/paper/ink combination align with the same theoretical calibration as the display with the ultimate goal being WYSIWYG for what you see and what gets printed.
Maybe picking nits...
