Monitor vs Printer Dynamic Range

[PalaDolphin]

In reading up on soft proofing on Cambridge Color, it's their opinion that monitors have a larger colour gamut than printers? I've got an old Acer monitor and the Canon Pro-100. I thought my printer had the larger colour gamut. What is the truth?

 

[stratman]

Don't know about your Acer monitor, but, in general, modern color monitors have greater number of colors (gamut) than printers.

https://industryanalysts.com/61015_oki/

 

[PalaDolphin]

Don't know about your Acer monitor, but, in general, modern color monitors have greater number of colors (gamut) than printers.

This is exactly the information I needed. Thank you @stratman.

 

[stratman]

YW.

 

[Ink stained Fingers]

Asking for the gamut of a printer is a kind of misleading, it is always the print on a particular paper with a particular ink with specific driver settings on a printer which exhibits this or that wide or small gamut, never the printer alone, all these variables can have a significant impact.
The subject of the printer gamut vs. a monitor was discussed in several threads in detail e.g. recently in this one
https://www.printerknowledge.com/threads/what-color-space-does-the-3880-really-cover.10981/page-4
The dynamic range of these devices is a small part of it - the ratio of the brightest to the darkest displayable color - white vs. black ratio. The dynamic range of a monitor is typically much wider than the contrast/dynamic range of a printout, this is the area where specifically B/W friends struggle with the available inks and their black level, matte papers, special inks , Dmax etc

 

[PalaDolphin]

I was asking for soft proofing.

 

[mikling]

Softproofing MUST do is to look away from the monitor. Close your eyes for a few seconds turn back to the monitor, with the image already in softproof mode and THEN open your eyes. Switching to softproof mode whilst looking at the screen will pretty much always end in disappointment.