Monitor screen calibration

[traktop]

I´m creating my decal artwork at home, but printing it on a different place since got no printer. The results are well... colorwise completely uncalibrated.
My question is if there is a "universal" method for calibrating monitor screens or something like that.
Cheers, Gilberto.

[PMowdes]

For photograpy I know that you can use something like this

http://www.colormunki.com/

otherwise you'll just have to test print onto paper before you print onto your decal

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-calibrate-your-monitor/

[traktop]

I guess that I finally will have to buy a proper printer.
Thanks for the links ;)

[Peter Venkman]

In your graphic design program see if you are using RGB or CMYK color profiles.
Then call the copy place and ask them what profile their machine prints in. i believe most printing shops use CMYK. If your design software uses hex color codes for RGB you can use this online tool codebeautify.org/hex-to-cmyk-converter
Just copy and paste the link because when I try to embed it I keep getting errors when i click the link


I had the same problem but with concert posters. I do all my artwork in Gimp which uses RGB, The local printshop that can make large format prints like 11 inches by 17 inches uses CMYK. So every time i took my files there to be printed they looked fine on the monitors, but when they would print out of the machine the colors were always off. I got tired of this ALWAYS happening and having to go and convert my files to their color profiles then return to re print so I bought a $30 color printer from Walmart that will do CMYK and RGB. Of course the printer was cheap but an ink cartridge costs twice as much as the printer.

hope this helps