Hi David, The iMac 21.5 has a monitor similar to my old (not very old) imac 24. To get a match to that 2400 printer. You'll probably end up with the brightness turned all the way down, particularly if you're working in dim light. There are expensive calibration devices that can help you determine that. But you can also go with a bargain calibration device, like the ColorVision Spyder2 Express that I use. You do need to calibrate at least for color accuracy. The Spyder2 does a good job on that. I think it sells for about $70. I see B&H now has a Spyder3 Express. I assume that's somewhat of an upgrade. It sells for about $100.
Once your monitor is accurate in terms of color balance, saturation and white point (Spyder2 can handle all that quite well), you'll just have to deal with brightness. A bit of trial and error works best here. Once you get a print that you consider perfect, simply tweak the monitor brightness adjustment to match. As I said, I think you'll find that you have to turn it all the way down, or almost all the way down. You can spend more money and try to dial the monitor in more precisely before you ever make a print, but I think you'll find some manual tweaking will still be needed. The printer and monitor are two different animals, and coupled with the operator's subjective judgement, that means that it's all somewhat imprecise science. But a decent calibration tool will ensure that you're close on color balance and saturation. That's almost impossible to achieve manually. Paul On Feb 4, 2011, at 11:01 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 > > -- > Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > York Region, Ontario, Canada > > -- > 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.
