"flambe" <fac187@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Monitor calibration will if you use these commercial printers but
> still not guarantee color will likely be as correct as it would be if you
> printed yourself in a color managed workflow. I fully understand why most
> casual shooters would not want to do that.
> Commercial printers have different ways they automatically and arbitrarily
> set a white/grey/black point so that images are likely to print with
> reasonably correct color. Most snapshooters do not know what they are
> looking at anyway.
> You would have to contact whatever printing company you use to find out
> how to optimize your image files for their printing processes.

yes it is highly likely these are not custom (human made) prints
and that an automated process is giving an AUTO level or curves before
printing

meaning whatever manipulations you use to get it prefect at home will be
adjusted to whatever the computer says

OR you can contact the print shop and ask what color profiles they require
and download them