On Feb 4, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Paul Sorenson wrote: > 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.
IMac monitors don't have a contrast adjustment. However, the calibration tool will handle that. The brightness setting on the the type of IMac monitor that David is using will have to be cranked way down at some point. But I agree: Don't tweak the printer settings. Let PhotoShop handle printing completely, using the right icc profiles for your paper and printr. > 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 >> > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
