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If a laptop screen has 83% RGB coverage, is that good enough for design work? I notice that it looks more vivid than normal screens, but I’m worried there might be color differences, especially when what I see on the screen looks fine, but the printed result comes out very different or overly saturated.

There isn’t really a yes/no answer to this, because the question lacks some important context.
Saying “83% RGB coverage” is not very meaningful on its own. 83% of which RGB color space? sRGB, Adobe RGB, DCI-P3, or something else? Those spaces differ significantly in size and saturation.

You can do design work on almost any display, but you should not assume that what you see on screen will automatically match the printed result (or other displays). To get predictable results, you need both suitable hardware and a proper understanding of color management.

Key factors include:

• Which color space the display actually covers
• Whether the display is calibrated and profiled
• Whether you are working color-managed in your applications
• Whether you are soft-proofing against the correct print profile and viewing conditions

A screen that looks “more vivid” than others is not necessarily more accurate, it may simply have a wider gamut or higher saturation, which can easily lead to overly saturated designs if color management is not handled correctly.

A good starting point is Fogra’s Softproof Handbook, which explains these topics clearly and practically:
https://fogra.org/fileadmin/files/1_for ... ndbook.pdf

Or maybe this post is just ragebait or from AI-bot and I'm a fish.

83% Adobe RGB, using an Nvidia Quadro P2000 graphics card.

Yeah, it’s true that my understanding of color management is still a bit lacking. When printing samples, some colors come out lighter than in the design, and when printing in large quantities, some colors that are light end up fading completely to white.

Designing and handling printing myself is still quite new to me, and the products have quite a few errors, so I’m a bit worried that maybe it’s because my laptop isn’t color-accurate and that’s why the colors are off.

• Whether you are working color-managed in your applications

• Whether you are soft-proofing against the correct print profile and viewing conditions

For these, well, I haven’t looked into them deeply yet. I just thought maybe it was because of my laptop, and I wondered if I need to upgrade to a monitor that covers 100% of some color space. Thanks for pointing this out, and not ragebait just a newbie