On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 8:01 AM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> 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.
Yes, it's a "get the darn monitor calibrated" moment. ;-) 1- Set room illumination to a reasonable reading level. 2- Calibrate and profile the display. * 3- check the adjustments you've made on screen using the "Lights Out" mode with a *white* fill. Once it looks right, you're ready to print. * Note that in some circumstances and with some displays, it's hard to get the brightness down to the right level. Particularly with today's very bright, very contrasty LCD displays. If you do all this and the prints are still a little dark, raise the room illumination so that your eye when adjusting the images on screen sees them a little darker. My display calibration targets using the Eye One Display 2 colorimeter and its software application are 120 luminance, 1.8 gamma and 5500K white point. I find this works beautifully in my normal room illumination with color managed output to the R2400. You can choose other targets if you prefer, what's important is that you choose your targets, calibrate and then have a working reference for your eyes that does the right thing. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
