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Poll

What style of desk/office lighting is your preferred space?  (Mark all that apply)

Ambient Lighting
[ 2 ] (14.3%)
Task Lighting
[ 2 ] (14.3%)
Accent Lighting
[ 0 ] (0%)
Desk lamp - please specify bulb wattage and color in comments and why
[ 0 ] (0%)
Overhead (Recessed or bulb)
[ 0 ] (0%)
Overhead (Typical fluorescent)
[ 4 ] (28.6%)
Candlelight
[ 1 ] (7.1%)
Daylight
[ 2 ] (14.3%)
No light other than my computer
[ 3 ] (21.4%)
No preference
[ 0 ] (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Topic: Poll: Work Lighting (Read 364 times) previous topic - next topic

Re: Poll: Work Lighting

Reply #15 –
All this trouble then the client looks at the proof under totally different lighting and its approved under those circumstances.

When the color expert came in here he showed me a gray balanced proof under about 5 different lighting scenarios and they all looked different.

Re: Poll: Work Lighting

Reply #16 –
I voted Daylight as my preferred option because that gives the best colour balance.  Where I used to work we had those fancy daylight bulbs but they are expensive and the secretary thought they would be like a tanning bed (she used to use them in her office).

Having said all that, most places I have worked just have regular overhead fluorescents.
Time flies like an arrow - fruit flies like a banana

Re: Poll: Work Lighting

Reply #17 –
Quote from: pspdfppdfxhd on
All this trouble then the client looks at the proof under totally different lighting and its approved under those circumstances.

When the color expert came in here he showed me a gray balanced proof under about 5 different lighting scenarios and they all looked different.



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It's all about the light.
Prepress guy - doin' jobs one at a time

Re: Poll: Work Lighting

Reply #18 –
We used to have a client, manufactured "stone" facade
In spite of knowing better, and being coached, etc...
they INSISTED they had to compare color vs. product outside in daylight. :ohno:

me: did they like the color?
CSR: No, they need to come back tomorrow, too cloudy today
 

Re: Poll: Work Lighting

Reply #19 –
We use all overhead 500k bulbs..

Re: Poll: Work Lighting

Reply #20 –
Typical fluorescent mixed with daylight.

A LOT OF DAYLIGHT.

The longest side of the room has huge windows looking north - north west.

In the afternoon we draw the ''curtains'' down  - not sure how they call those rolls in English -

The lights are warm, but because of the daylight they seem less warm than usual.

Colleagues work on imacs, and i on a hacintosh with a 27inch ultra sharp, factory calibrated...

Funny thing is the majority of jobs are processed very carefully, we keep printed records for reprints etc.

Funnier is that when we have a problem or a doubt we go all over the place to find the right spot to estimate the color look...

Even funnier the thing works, so why argue?

Re: Poll: Work Lighting

Reply #21 –
I think they're called shades over here in san diego