Re: Strange color output behavior in LR - totally puzzled

2015-04-14 Thread Igor PDML-StR
Paul and P.J., - thank you for some helpful ideas! P.J., That's an interesting idea. I see how this might happen in some cases. Looking at this comparison of gamuts for R2880 and aRGB, I can see that indeed, orange might be in the region that is covered by aRGB but not by R2880.

Strange color output behavior in LR - totally puzzled

2015-04-13 Thread Igor PDML-StR
I encounter some rather weird behavior in LR (5.7.1), and I am totally puzzled by it. I have a photograph that has primarily white and orange color in it. In Print module, I added a text-based ID plate and a text-based watermark. For both of those, I selected orange font colors that are

Re: Strange color output behavior in LR - totally puzzled

2015-04-13 Thread Paul
Why are you not using application color management instead of printer color management? It seems that would produce more accurate color representation. Also...what does the image look like if you enable soft proofing in LR? Do you note the same problem? Are you using Epson paper or some

Re: Strange color output behavior in LR - totally puzzled

2015-04-13 Thread P.J. Alling
Sounds like you have a gamut problem, one or both of the colors are out of gamut for your printer's inkset, and the direct print is at some point in the image processing train pushing them further apart. Converting the image to 8 bits first by saving as a jpeg is pushing them closer together.