Probably best to calibrate the monitor. Don't mess with the printer
settings to remedy a too dark print. A stopgap solution might be to
reduce how bright the monitor is, but...don't do it by reducing the
brightness, drop the contrast setting down to about 40 or 50 percent and
try another print. Make further incremental adjustments from there.
Don't forget to re-set the monitor to its default settings, though,
before you do a proper calibration. I keep a batch of 4x6 paper around
to do test printing. When that looks good, I can usually count on
getting a good print on larger sheets.
There's an interesting discussion of this problem here...
http://shutterbug.com/techniques/digital_darkroom/0809prints/
-p
On 2/4/2011 10:01 AM, David J Brooks wrote:
I finally got around to hooking up my Epson 2400. I needed to clean
the heads so all are fine now.
I do not have my iMac calibrated but i wanted to see how it would
print out and match the screen.
Test print is coming out darker than the screen by a fair amount using
LR 3 to adjust and print. If i lower the brightness of the screen by
5-6 clicks i get on screen what the print looks like.
Is this a classic case of "get the dam monitor calibrated" or maybe a
print setting. ?? I have checked those several times and cannot see
any change it what i had been doing on the P C. No colour adjustment
set, proper paper specs set etc.
Dave
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