Fill color not same as color picker

Hey there, thanx for any help i can get... here is my problem... i am working in cmyk - U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2... i need to get a specific red and so i am going to print some tests...
c 0
m 100
y 90
k 0
i entered these values into my color box and then made a selection on a new layer... when i fill the selection with the color the new layer reads:
c 0
m 100
y 89
k 0
Every time... dont know what my problem can be... could it be a screen calibration issue... however i recalibrate every month.
thanx again for any suggestions.!

Some kind of rounding error looks like. CMYK always uses percentage when in fact its using a scale of 0 to 255, in each channel.
Behaves the same way for me too. I remember slight discrepancies like this in my CMYK days. The color can be CORRECTED to 0.100.90.0, but like you say choosing this as a foreground and filling, results in an incorrect yellow value by one point. CMYK profile is irrelevant.
Take a curve and pull the yellow 100 input to 99. Honestly in the real wolrld printing is so inaccurate that single percentage values make no difference.

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