Thanks to everybody who helped to confirm that I didn't miss any other profile suitable for this paper. Also, many thanks for all other answers with lots and lots of useful information. (Godfrey, - your account of ink usage is exactly what I needed!) Christine, - thanks for your suggestions as well, - while I had done most of the things already, - but it is nice to hear that I am following the path some other went already. :-)
Some thoughts about darkness of the print: Tue Jan 13 16:30:43 EST 2009 Godfrey DiGiorgi > On Jan 13, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > > 3. The prints were coming a bit darker than what I was expecting > > them to > > be. I cannot blame just the calibration of my CRT monitor, as I am > > looking at the hystogram, - and it looks very reasonable. > > Making the photos brighter would start blowing off the highlights. > > (I am printing from LR.) > > If your display is not calibrated, all bets are off when it comes to > output color match on the printer. > > Generally speaking, if prints are darker than the screen rendering, > the screen brightness is set too high. The recommended screen > brightness for a CRT is 100-110 CDma2 (Luminance in the Eye One Match > software). > As I mentioned, - I am not judging just by the monitor (and, BTW, -I've looked at the photos on a few other monitors, including two diffrent LCDs). Rather, I am looking at the hystogram, and where the dark parts of the photo are in the hystogram. Please correct me if I am wrong, - but I think it is a reliable way (short of calibrated screen). I should probably check this in more detail, but so far it seems that indeed the print is darker then it should be. I'll check also how it happens on other papers. In the printer properties, there is a parameter "ink (or print?) density", or something like that, which is by default is in the middle of the range. Has anybody tried to fiddle with it? I tried to nudge it down by 5-7%, but the difference was not much noticeable (if at all). I need to experiment more, but if somebody used it, - please let me know. Igor -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
