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Okay. So your suggestion at this point is to get the bulbs, do the calibration again and see if it makes a difference? I do not need new prints right? My originals are fine? Thanks

I chose Warm as that was the closest match to my prints when going through the steps. However, now that you have asked this question, I am thinking I may have to wait to get my new bulbs to do anything about this problem. Tell me if I am correct in the following thought process... Calibrating at night is best because it is really easy to make the room as dark as possible. However, the step of choosing the white temp options would be flawed currently because I am fairly certain my dining room light is not the right light. But then shouldn't my prints match at night better? Oh my head is hurting!! The options I have on my screen are as follows... Standard, Multi Media, Movie, Game, Paper, Warm, Cool, Custom Colour Thank you

Yes

Yes, that is correct.

It is a Dell. But I can't find the model # anywhere on it. I will have to look for the bill and can't do that until sometime tomorrow.

Yes. That is currently correct. But the answer for night time may be different once we get the right bulbs in.

Warmer

Yes. I am aware. My screen was set too bright when I ordered the prints. I have fixed the brightness so I now have that portion of calibration matching my screen but the colours are not. I am only going to reference the issues I am seeing when comparing during day light, in the snowy scene with the horses, the snow and the clouds have a pink under tone to them. The one with the little girl, the sky is off tone. The one with the couple, the path behind them the tone is off significantly to the print. Basically all the light tones (sky, skin, gravel, clouds, snow) all have too much pink/red/sometimes yellow tones to them. The darker tones seem fine.

Yes, you are right. Sorry my initial explanation above was not clear enough. At night the prints are incredibly yellow compared to my screen. I am working on fixing that though. Found your suggestions regarding what bulbs to look for (lumens, temperature) and will change ours out ASAP. In the meantime, they do not match the monitor in the daytime either and the daytime is when I will likely do at least half my editing. I have controlled all external light sources I can during the day. There is no where else in our house I can edit. I cannot get the prints to match the screen. I have been very careful not to edit or compare prints during golden hour on either end of the day and I lower the blinds so the light source is less. Also, The monitor is tucked in an alcove, so no direct light is falling on the screen. As @Samantha LaRue asked, I have included a couple files that I used for my test prints. I am only going to reference the issues I am seeing when comparing during daylight as I know my nightime light source needs adjusting. In the snowy scene with the horses, the snow and the clouds have a pink under tone to them. The one with the little girl, the sky is off tone. The one with the couple, the path behind them the tone is off significantly to the print. Also, in the image with the couple the foliage has much less contrast in the print than on screen but I was thinking that could be because my brightness was off? Thank you

Yes, I can post an image when I get home from work (9:30 CST Canada). I did close my blinds when comparing during the day and it was mid afternoon, which is fairly neutral light and the time of the day I would do the majority of my daytime editing in. Not the yellow you get early morning and late evening. To be honest I am uninclined to order from a different lab. The rest of them are in the States and our dollar is ridiculous right now. If it becomes unavoidable and obvious that I need to test out other labs I will but I would prefer it being the last resort. Thank you for your input and I will post an image in about five hours. Oh, and yes, ordered without colour correction.

Hi Damien (and helpers), After running my Spyder5 Pro calibrator, following Damien's instructions, five times and still not getting the result to match my prints I am hoping you can help me figure out where I am going wrong. I got my best results after the fifth time but the monitor is still much warmer than the prints. -screen brightness is all the way down to 0 and that is finally a good match to the prints as far as that goes -have tried all three white point settings -in all three white point settings the screen is showing pink or overly yellow tones in areas that should be whites or tans (such as sky, snow, skin tones, walking paths). -I have talked to my lab and they recommend printing new test prints but I do not see why that would be necessary This result is currently based off comparing prints to screen during daylight hours. In the evening it is even worse but I think my light source is too yellow and too dim. So we will be changing the bulbs based on your recommendations in one of your posts and then I will do another night time comparison. I will be editing both in daylight and at night so I need to get the best match possible during both times. My editing is done on a Dell monitor that matched the specs you recommended. It is set up in a small alcove off my dining room. There is a lot of light during the day through windows facing north and south however no direct light hits the screen due to it being tucked into the alcove. At night the area is lit by a shaded three bulb dining room light directly behind me, so the monitor faces the dining room light. I may or may not be able to add a desk lamp if it is recommended, depending on size as the space is not big. At this point what would your recommendation be as to my next step? Thank you