I've never held much faith in Illustrator's color to begin with. But here's one for you.. I have 3 machines. a Mac G5 tiger, a Dell 8200 and an HP with Vista. I have 2 monitors. a 20" Viewsonic and a 24"
Samsung LCD Colorsynch. CS3 on the Mac and HP, CS2 on the Dell. My color profiles are the same on everything. I tried something not to long ago.
I opened a photo in PS on all 3 machines. Turned off the color management and enlarged the images so that the pixels were about 1/8" and took readings. All 3 machines read the same pixel differently.
I switched the monitors around. Different again. Opened the photo in illustrator. The 'per pixel' readings were different between Ill and PS on the same machine ( side by side ) and different in Illustrator from machine and monitor to machine and monitor. Needless to say I became quite frustrated ( and wished I'd never started the experiment ) I mentioned this to a friend of mine who's a pre-press tech. He tried the same experiment where he works on 5 different Macs and 1 PC. The results were the same. ( now he's upset ) I've come to the conclusion that there is no absolute in this case. I was of the opinion that regardless of the computer and/or monitor, the color values were mathematical equations. in other words, if the color value of a pixel was 21% C - 47%M - 81%Y - 54%K then no matter how it displayed or whether it was a Mac or PC, a CRT or LCD those were the numbers. What am I missing here?????
Samsung LCD Colorsynch. CS3 on the Mac and HP, CS2 on the Dell. My color profiles are the same on everything. I tried something not to long ago.
I opened a photo in PS on all 3 machines. Turned off the color management and enlarged the images so that the pixels were about 1/8" and took readings. All 3 machines read the same pixel differently.
I switched the monitors around. Different again. Opened the photo in illustrator. The 'per pixel' readings were different between Ill and PS on the same machine ( side by side ) and different in Illustrator from machine and monitor to machine and monitor. Needless to say I became quite frustrated ( and wished I'd never started the experiment ) I mentioned this to a friend of mine who's a pre-press tech. He tried the same experiment where he works on 5 different Macs and 1 PC. The results were the same. ( now he's upset ) I've come to the conclusion that there is no absolute in this case. I was of the opinion that regardless of the computer and/or monitor, the color values were mathematical equations. in other words, if the color value of a pixel was 21% C - 47%M - 81%Y - 54%K then no matter how it displayed or whether it was a Mac or PC, a CRT or LCD those were the numbers. What am I missing here?????