color on YOUR monitor

[terryei]

I send a lot of PDF, converted from CorelDraw, sample art to customers.
I'm a little confused, as always, what color pallets should I be using?  Most of the time the customer writes back that the color is way off, I, and they, understand that monitors may look a little different and ink on apparel may be a little different, but sometimes it is way off.
How should I be saving the colors on a design to send to a customer?
Terry

[Denis Kolar]

PDF is the best way I think.
The only problem is that people have different setting on their monitors.
I have EIZO monitor at work (for color correction) and the next person in my department has the regular Acer monitor and designs look way different on hers than it looks on mine.
I would have the disclaimer sent with the file that says that color might not look the same on different monitors.

[GraphicDisorder]

I tell people to print a proof for best look at color.  Because peoples monitors are always so way off!

[Denis Kolar]

I tell people to print a proof for best look at color.  Because peoples monitors are always so way off!

Printers too   Sometimes even more than monitors

[GraphicDisorder]

I tell people to print a proof for best look at color.  Because peoples monitors are always so way off!

Printers too   Sometimes even more than monitors

I dunno man, printers for sure vary, but generally ive seen the worst color differences in peoples monitors.  I can hardly sit at one that's uncalibrated anymore.

[Frog]

There is a specific CorelDRAW-PDF color setting issue, at least I once had to go through it with similar problems, as I had someone else outputting transfers for me via pdf files on their CLC.
 I just don't remember what the specific solution was.
And, no, I don't understand color management either.
I do know that whatever I did did the trick.

I know that prior to X3, general color management was RGB by default, and changed to CYMK. In my X4 Color management settings, all are default.
When I "Publish to PDF" there is an advanced tab in settings that has Color Management set to RGB

If we can't get a specific CorelDRAW expert to chime in, perhaps a trip to a Corel specific forum like Unleashed would be advised.

[Shawn (EIP)]

I have 2 monitors and the colors are way off... Just reciently replaced an order when they wanted purple and I printed royal blue. Speaking of purple... they are almost impossable to color match by eye.

[GraphicDisorder]

I have 2 monitors and the colors are way off... Just reciently replaced an order when they wanted purple and I printed royal blue. Speaking of purple... they are almost impossable to color match by eye.

I have had this happen before, what I started doing is on my proof I list the color, so they are not just seeing it but reading it. 

In other words you show em what they think is purple because their monitor is off, but you list it as blue, they throw up a flag and its caught.  Doesn't always work but can help IMO.