On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi David, >
> > 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. > > Paul Looks like that's might be what i have to do. I think i missed this statement the first time around. Dave > > > 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. > -- 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.
