Ink Drawdown on Screen

A drawdown is a smear of the ink on the paper it will print on — the object everyone in the room compares against. The Ink Drawdown page puts one on screen from the library's measurement, on the paper you choose, under the light you choose, and adds three pictures around it.

What is on the page

The left square is the paper with the ink on it. Pick any neutral of the library as the paper, or the ideal white 100/0/0. Under it, the measurement condition (M0, M1, M2), the illuminant and the observer: D50/2° shows the library's published numbers, any other light is integrated from the sample's own spectrum. Click a patch in the right square and the ink square splits into aim and variant, with one sentence that says how the variant differs.

What the screen can and cannot show

A display is not a drawdown. Its white is not paper, its gamut has edges, and its colour depends on a profile you did not make. The line under the square says where you stand: Display not checked until an instrument has read it, then the residuals of ink and paper. See Checking Your Display.