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Printing Quality

  • 04-03-2009 5:05pm
    #1
    irishmotorist
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    We got our dad a new monitor for Christmas - it's a samsung TFT widescreen. Since then, his photo printing hasn't been working too well for him. He has an Epson Stylus R800 and has always been happy with the quality. Now, the images are very dark and it seems to have come as a result of changing the monitor.
    He can force brightness and contrast settings on the printer to get the printout looking better, but is the screen related to the print and what can we do to sort it out?

    Thanks.


Comments

  • #2
    melekalikimaka
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    http://www.drycreekphoto.com/Learn/monitor_calibration.htm


  • #3
    whitetea
    Closed Accounts Posts: 48 ✭whitetea


    There might be few reasons for that:

    1. Your monitor (and the printer ideally) needs to be calibrated,
    2. You need to use a right ICC profile and right set of inks for the paper you are using,
    3. If you printing with Photoshop you should let Photoshop manage the colours and switch off the printer colour management to avoid double profiling.

    If you weren't doing these things before you might have just been lucky to get good results before and after you chaged couple things it decided not to work any more...


  • #4
    stcstc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭stcstc


    the monitor will be almost certianly be set way way to bright

    Manufacturers do this so they can say there monitor is really bright

    BUT

    for photo processing you want a monitor set about 20% brightness,

    there is a more scientific way, but just change it to 20% brightness and i bet your images are much closer to the print then


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