Firstly, laptops can be notoriously inaccurate in colour rendering for a couple of reasons. a) the viewing angle affects what you see and images can look different when viewed from different angles on the same screen b) power management options can sometimes vary the backlight and so cause variations in image brightness.
Secondly, cameras, printers, scanners, etc have different ranges of colours that they can capture or reproduce. All less than the eye can perceive. This means that in some cases you will lose colours or colours may shift.
To minimise the differences between screen and print for example, you need accurate screen profiles and the relevant printer/paper/ink profiles and a colour managed program. Even so you may not acheive a 100% match because the printer may not be able to reproduce the same colour range as in your image.
Plus you need to calibrate the colour temperature, brightness and contrast of your screen.
WYSIWIG is not guaranteed but you can get close if you follow all the rules of colour management.
In addition you need to review your prints in lighting conditions that match the colour temperature you set your screen to. Prints are viewed by reflective light and the quality of this can make prints appear darker/lighter or different in colour.
- Have you calibrated and profiled your screen with a hardware device?
- What settings in the print module > print job panel do you use?
- What paper do you use?
- What printer profile do you use?
- Have you made sure that only one colour management process is being used.. i.e if LR is set to manage colours do you turn off colour management in your printer driver?
- What lighting conditions do you view the prints under?
Colin
