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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dangerspouse" data-source="post: 755193" data-attributes="member: 46690">Allow me to relate what happened to me when I was perplexed by this very same issue.I originally purchased my Nikon so my wife could have high quality macro pictures of historical cross-stitched pieces that she was reproducing for her business. It was important for her to have accurate color reproduction. But when the colors looked great on my monitor, they never printed the same. It caused massive amounts of stress. I calibrated the monitor, then purchased a new monitor that was supposedly color accurate and good for photo post-processing. No dice. The colors in the printed versions still did not match the original photos. And we were using high end printing shops as well as a series of home printers.After over a year of frustrating research, and money, it turned out that the answer was soft proofing. It doesn't matter how good or accurate your camera or your monitor are, if things like the nozzle of the ink dispenser or the thickness of the paper are different than the de facto settings of your program, then the colors are not going to be accurate.  If the colors on your monitor are accurate, you need to get your printer to proof your photos - or soft proof them yourself with the printer/paper combo you're using. Learn from my experience here. Anything you do on your end to your monitor, your camera settings, etc., will have no effect. Your program needs to know what printer and what paper are being used so it can adjust its setting and make the colors accurate. If you're using Lightroom, it has a Soft Proofing tab. Use that to input the brand of printer and paper you're using. That's what ultimately solved the problem for us. (There are YouTube videos that can walk you through the specifics. I hope this helps you. I wish I'd known it early on so I could have saved myself a year long headache!</blockquote>

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