From: Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 8:01 AM, David J Brooks <pentko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I finally got around to hooking up my Epson 2400. I needed to clean
> the heads so all are fine now.
>
> I do not have my iMac calibrated but i wanted to see how it would
> print out and match the screen.
>
> Test print is coming out darker than the screen by a fair amount using
> LR 3 to adjust and print. If i lower the brightness of the screen by
> 5-6 clicks i get on screen what the print looks like.
>
> Is this a classic case of "get the dam monitor calibrated" or maybe a
> print setting. ?? ?I have checked those several times and cannot see
> any change it what i had been doing on the P C. No colour adjustment
> set, proper paper specs set etc.
Yes, it's a "get the darn monitor calibrated" moment. ;-)
Which gets you half-way there.
Once the monitor is calibrated you need to make a printer profile for
the paper you're using so the prints will come out looking like what you
see on your calibrated monitor.
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