I encounter some rather weird behavior in LR (5.7.1), and I am totally
puzzled by it.
I have a photograph that has primarily white and orange color in it.
In Print module, I added a text-based ID plate and a text-based watermark.
For both of those, I selected orange font colors that are visually very
close to that of the photo.
1. If I "Print to: File" (withing LR Print Module dialog), then all
orange colors in the resulting JPEG appear to be similar to each other,
and if I import that JPEG back into LR and print to Epson R2880, all the
colors are similar.
2. If I "Print to: Printer" right away, the text font color is _VERY_
different from the color of the photo itself.
JPEG and the initial file - appear to be in the same color (on the
screen).
But if I print both to the same printer (and paper) with the same
otherwise settings (besides the id plate and the watermark), -
The print colors (between the printed photos in #1 and in #2) are
different.
I suspect that something might be off in the calibration conversion,
as the JPEG is in RGB, while the DNG is in Adobe RGB (but even this is a
big surprise). But what is completely puzzling is why and how the colors
of the text and the photo are different when those are printed directly to
the printer.
Also, I see this difference is present in the "Preview" that shows up when
it is enabled in the printer (R2880) "set page" dialogue.
(I should point out that the colors in the preview have ALWAYS been
royally messed up (on both Windows computers that I used with this
printer, WinXP and Windows 7, and different versions of LR, from 1 or 2
to 5 [Win7 only]), when printing from DNG files in Adobe RGB, but
prints were coming out mostly fine.)
In all these cases, I have the configurations set to disable color
management by the application and enable color control by the Printer
driver Profile.
Any guess for this weirdness?
1. Why do text and photo of visibly similar colors come out differently
in print?
2. Why do the prints from an AdobeRGB DNG and from an RGB JPEG have
different colors?
Thank you,
Igor
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