>>4138971A good starting point is get a fine art paper sample from red river paper. Get the FINE ART & PHOTOGRAPHY DISCOVERY KIT
https://www.redrivercatalog.com/art-design-base-kit.htmlDownload the printer icc for your pro-100 and the papers you want to try. While not as good as a custom profile, they're pretty close these days.
Unlike what
>>4139196 tells you, you need to at least do some basic monitor calibration. You can get pretty close by setting the brightness to 20% and contrast to 100% on the monitor's control panel. You'll also want to adjust the white point with the monitor's RGB controls. Just try and visually match the monitor's to some white printer paper(standard office copy paper). While not a perfect visual match, it will be pretty close.
>>4139196The procedure I just outlined above will do the trick for most here, but for those of who need color accuracy (which I do, my clients expect absolute reproduction of their artwork).
>Your camera sees and records colors perfectly, there's no need to fuck around with colorsThis is absolute nonsense. No commercially available camera, even when properly profiled using a color target, is even close to colorimetric. Whether I'm doing reproduction work, or working on my own color work. Advanced and specific color and tonal edits are REQUIRED to produce the results I want. My abstract stuff usually has 4-6 layers, repro stuff can have up to 15 layers! You'll notice that the edits are targeting specific colors and tones to get them exactly where I want them.
Without a color calibrated monitor, these edits for creative or color matching and soft proofing would either take longer to do, or be impossible.
