On Feb 4, 2011, at 6:53 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi >> 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. ;-) > > Which gets you half-way there. > > Once the monitor is calibrated you need to make a printer profile for the > paper you're using so the prints will come out looking like what you see on > your calibrated monitor. > icc printer profiless are available for printing all the Epson premium papers on the R2400 as well as a variety of other popular papers. In my experience, which is considerable in this area, the profiles are very good. Paul
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