Calibration to print in bad lighting.

[Tizzy]

Is there anyway to calibrate a monitor to match something I print being viewed in “regular” lighting. I have a Xerox c9000 with their calibrating tool that looks like a colorchecker studio with Xerox branding. I want my monitor to approximately match prints viewed in 4000k lighting with a CRI of 80. Any way to do that with displaycal?   Also will a colorimeter be better for my monitor or a spectrophotometer is good?

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[Vincent]

I’d say you can’t. Even if you match whitepoint & brightness, all metameric failures due to “bad” spectral powr distribution (SPD) in light for prints will (may, depending on colors) make errors big.
Maybe measuring printed color patches with an spectro and using that bad SPD as illuminant to make a printer profile, then use softproof using that profile, “maybe”. You may need to enable/disable simulate paper color.

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