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That is not a silly question at all.

I found 400 to 800lm LEDs with around 4000K to be a good range for a desk lamp.

Mind, this is not your professional pre-press light desk. It is a very practical solution for home offices. The temperature halfway between daylight and incandescent gives a solid average of viewing conditions. Also it does not burn your eyes out if you switch that light on in winter time with short days.

Luckily we live in a time where good LED lights are abundant and also rather cheap, so there is no harm in trying one or another.

If you do a lot of printing you can get an extra lamp and buy a true daylight LED from one of the respectable producer that you only use to evaluate prints. That one should be probably around 1000lm - when going for proper-proper, not the output lumen of the lamp is important but the receiving lux on the desk. Of course there are standards and measuring devices for that. You would be surprised how bright a light booth with a correct setup is. Again, very helpful in a professional workflow, overkill for private stuff.

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