04-03-2014 06:41 PM
New to forum but have reviewed all questions that I can see for 2014 and do not see an answer. I am using Photoshop Lightroom and CS6 and the Pro-100 printer. Monitor is an NEC P221W, calibrated using SpectraSensor Pro. Printing with Canon CLI-42 ink on Canon Photo Paper Plus Glossy II. I have installed the latest XPS printer driver and am confident that I am using the printer with the proper driver. Here's the problem: I cannot get bright blues and greens to print with the same level of intensity that I see on the monitor. As a test, I printed some other photos that consist primarily of portraits, and skin tones and general color are superb. Only my effort to print a photo consisting of green leaves and bright blue flowers with the saturated color of the flowers popping off the paper does not seem to work.
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04-04-2014 02:35 AM
You are going to need to over saturate the colors you want to exceed the rest of the colors in the photo.
Over the years I have found out a few things that seem imposswible whrn prinitng. This was true in my darkroom as well as printing digital.
One, it is impossibile to get all the colors to match a monitor. You can get several to match but not all of them.
Two, the most important adjustments of your monitor is gray-scale, contrast and brightness.
Three, Canon professional photo printers have a tendacy towards a reddish (warm tone) bias. It is built in. This is going to make over saturated greens more difficult.
Remember you are looking at and comparing light on a screen to pigmented ink on paper.
04-04-2014 02:35 AM
You are going to need to over saturate the colors you want to exceed the rest of the colors in the photo.
Over the years I have found out a few things that seem imposswible whrn prinitng. This was true in my darkroom as well as printing digital.
One, it is impossibile to get all the colors to match a monitor. You can get several to match but not all of them.
Two, the most important adjustments of your monitor is gray-scale, contrast and brightness.
Three, Canon professional photo printers have a tendacy towards a reddish (warm tone) bias. It is built in. This is going to make over saturated greens more difficult.
Remember you are looking at and comparing light on a screen to pigmented ink on paper.
04-11-2014 12:09 PM
Thanks very much.
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