By You’ve spent hours perfecting that landscape photograph on your calibrated monitor, sent it to the printer, and received back something that looks muddy, flat, or just wrong. The culprit isn’t a careless printer—it’s the fundamental difference between how screens and paper create color. Your monitor uses RGB (red, green, blue light), while professional printing relies on the 4 color print process using CMYK inks: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black.
This disconnect catches most photographers off-guard because the two systems work in opposite ways. Monitors add colored light together to create brightness, while …
