Will colors always display the same on printer or web site as they do on your camera?

Question

Why or why not?

Answer 1

Sometimes it won't you will need to calabrate your monitor so it will be the colors that you want it to be. You usually have to get the software in the photography section to do that.

Answer 2

The color displayed depends a lot on how many pixels are assigned to the hardware. For example if your camera is for example a 32 pixel per inch camera, the printer is 32 pixels per inch and the website was set to display 32 pixels per inch then all three would be the same. However, in real life that is usually not the same. Most websites do not display high quality images as it takes a lot of diskspace for storage and bandwidth to transfer the images. Some printers are limited in the number of colors they can print (which is a function of the number of pixels they can use) and the quality of the camera will limit the true colors it can capture.

But all in all, the colors should be fairly close if the equipment is recent in manufacture.

Answer 3

Calibrating the printer to a specific color profile between the monitor and the printer is the closest solution. Even with that done properly, colors on a monitor and colors on a printed document will NEVER match exactly because they use two different color modes/color spaces. Your monitor uses RGB, or the additive color mode, which has a much larger gamut than the printer, which uses CMYK or subtractive color. If you need more info on these things, check Wikipedia for articles. But this is a basic concept that many people don't understand.

Answer 4

No it won't always be the same on every printer or every website. For printing, it depends on the quality of the printer and the type of ink it uses. For web sites, it depends on the monitor and the color settings.

Answer 5

No it will not be exactly the same. Color printing varies depending on the photo quality and pantone matching capabilities of your printer. The color on a web site should be close to the original color but will vary when you are looking at depending on the color settings and quality of your monitor.

Answer 6

What you see on your camera, on your monitor or output from your printer may or may not be what others see.

Each printer is calibrated differently, as is each person's computer monitor.

If you want to test this out, put some photos online and look at them from various computers.

Print your photos out from various printers.

Answer 7

Screen color of your monitor can make it look different. But as far as copying from cam to computer, it will be the same, just different resolution (size/quality) And for a printer, all are different, and color cartridges are different, no way to tell exactly.

Answer 8

No i you have an RGB set on your camera but something else [more than just two or three ink cartriges] on your printer or computer screen then it will showup different on a print or web site.

Answer 9

Not exactly. Your monitor generates colour by the ADDITION of the three primary colours of red, green and blue light. Your printer uses the SUBTRACTION of the complementary colours yellow, magenta and cyan (black is also used to make the dark areas appear less "muddy"). So, all that said, it's amazing how true to life the result can be.

Answer 10

Nope! You often have to "color-correct". If you want the long-and-dirty about THAT sort of thing, see Scott Kelby's pickayoonee descriptions in the cited (friendly, humorous, great tutorial)