I am facing hard time to get the print I want. I have Epson 2400 printer and my print still looks foggy or milky.
I use calibrated LCD monitor (spyder), latest ICC profiles from epson, and premuim semigloss photo paper. PS/Printer settings are all right but my prints appear somewhat darker and I have no problem with color accuracy but the general brighness. Is it related to the type of paper? I couldn't find semigloss luster here in my country but if this is the problem I will get them from US.
I decided to depend on myself to print my images after I find poor quality print from the labs here. So far, my result is way better than what they do but still didn't reach that stage where my print have the same bright look whiuch I see on my monitor.
Mohsen - This could be a few things - monitor brightness, viewing light, printer/paper profile. A few questions :
1) What luminance is your monitor calibrated to? Anything over 100 cd/m is probably too bright to match.
2) Have you tried looking at the soft proofing in PS, and does it look OK? What if you use a different paper profile?
3) Have you tried viewing the print in sufficiently bright light?
4) It is possible that you're double profiling between the printer driver and PS. You might want to check those settings again just to be sure, because I've heard of it doing some strange things.
Semigloss won't have quite the contrast that your monitor will, so you really won't be able to get a picture to have the "pop" that your monitor might. But if the image is dim overall, that's probably not the fault of the paper. It could be the fault of the profile though (assuming your monitor isn't too bright).
Posted by Dan Borzynski on July 15, 2008 at 10:46 PM
What are your printing settings for Photoshop (or other image editting program)?
Go to File/Print with Preview. List of the the settings you have there.
In that pop-up window, go to Page Set-up, Printer, Properties. In the popup that eventually shows up, what settings do you have there. Under the Advanced button, what settings do you have? Under printer color management, you should have should have checked off, no color management, or something like that. Switch to the paper tab - what settings are there? While you are on that window, to a printer check (last tab).
If you are running a windows machine, check the printer settings under settings/printers and faxes. Make sure those match you PS settings.
It is extremely easy to have a mistaken setting. Sometimes the results are interesting, but usually you;ve just wasted paper and ink.
When I first began using the 2400 I was getting what I called "muddy" images. They all looked like they had a grey fog over the print. After hours on the phone with both Epson and Photoshop, they both blamed each other and I was without an answer. Finally, I uninstalled the printer software and reinstalled it. Why it cleared it up, I have no idea, but it did.
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3 repliesI use calibrated LCD monitor (spyder), latest ICC profiles from epson, and premuim semigloss photo paper. PS/Printer settings are all right but my prints appear somewhat darker and I have no problem with color accuracy but the general brighness. Is it related to the type of paper? I couldn't find semigloss luster here in my country but if this is the problem I will get them from US.
I decided to depend on myself to print my images after I find poor quality print from the labs here. So far, my result is way better than what they do but still didn't reach that stage where my print have the same bright look whiuch I see on my monitor.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks in Aadvance.
1) What luminance is your monitor calibrated to? Anything over 100 cd/m is probably too bright to match.
2) Have you tried looking at the soft proofing in PS, and does it look OK? What if you use a different paper profile?
3) Have you tried viewing the print in sufficiently bright light?
4) It is possible that you're double profiling between the printer driver and PS. You might want to check those settings again just to be sure, because I've heard of it doing some strange things.
Semigloss won't have quite the contrast that your monitor will, so you really won't be able to get a picture to have the "pop" that your monitor might. But if the image is dim overall, that's probably not the fault of the paper. It could be the fault of the profile though (assuming your monitor isn't too bright).
Go to File/Print with Preview. List of the the settings you have there.
In that pop-up window, go to Page Set-up, Printer, Properties. In the popup that eventually shows up, what settings do you have there. Under the Advanced button, what settings do you have? Under printer color management, you should have should have checked off, no color management, or something like that. Switch to the paper tab - what settings are there? While you are on that window, to a printer check (last tab).
If you are running a windows machine, check the printer settings under settings/printers and faxes. Make sure those match you PS settings.
It is extremely easy to have a mistaken setting. Sometimes the results are interesting, but usually you;ve just wasted paper and ink.