Printing on an Epson 9000. CS4 Windows, Lacie Electron Blue CRT, calibrated.
When printing properly exposed or lightened prints, print colour matches the screen. When I underexpose or use a polarizing filter prints appear about 1.5 stops darker than the screen. It is not simply that the blue of the sky is rendered in this fashion but the entire subject is. I shoot some local theatre, without filters, which is largely a black background. When I print a theatre shot, the highlights reflect what I see on the screen.
This is consistent regardless of paper type or profile. For whatever reason it would seem only dark blues and blue-greens will print darker, not only in that colour spectrum, but across the colours of the entire print.
Any suggestions as to a solution?
Posted by David Bostedo on February 1, 2010 at 6:35 PM
Sounds like a bad driver or something Dave. There should be no way that simply having a particular color in one spot in an image can affect the entire image. Are you soft-proofing before printing? Does the soft-proof look OK? Have you tried making sure you've got all the upgrades for CS4 and your printer driver installed?
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1 repliesWhen printing properly exposed or lightened prints, print colour matches the screen. When I underexpose or use a polarizing filter prints appear about 1.5 stops darker than the screen. It is not simply that the blue of the sky is rendered in this fashion but the entire subject is. I shoot some local theatre, without filters, which is largely a black background. When I print a theatre shot, the highlights reflect what I see on the screen.
This is consistent regardless of paper type or profile. For whatever reason it would seem only dark blues and blue-greens will print darker, not only in that colour spectrum, but across the colours of the entire print.
Any suggestions as to a solution?