Re: Printing too dark

Gordon MacPherson wrote:
Hi,
I have a Canon 350D, PSPX2 and an Epson R1800 printer. Mainly use Epson Premium Glossy paper. Computer is a Dell Latitude hooked up to a Dell
monitor, calibrated with Pantone Huey. Photos look fine on the monitor and on other monitors. Problem is that prints come out very dark.
I normally have colour management in PSP turned off and have tried the Epson "Best photo" with no improvement.
Similarly, if I use the Epson ICM with input profile sRGB IEC61966-21 and printer profile SPR1800 Premium Glossy prints come out too dark.
At present I am using the Color Controls but have to have the Brightness at +20 and Contrast at -13 to get the print looking OK.
One thing I cannot seem to change is the Color Mode. I use sRGB on the camera but the Epson seems locked into Adobe RGB - how can I change this?

Thanks for any suggestions,

Gordon



I think you'll find (my experience with 3 of the things) that Epson printers all deposit ink on the heavy side of normal. You can knock back the ink saturation in the control panel a surprising amount before it becomes too washy.

As for printing from Photoshop...

Let Photoshop decide on the appropriate mode to use based on your choice of ICC profiles. Just be sure to turn off the printer's colour management altogether from the printing preferences in control panel of Windows. If you don't and try to let Photoshop manage the colour, you'll get double correction and dark prints.

Your camera may well be set to sRGB but this has no effect if you shoot in RAW mode. Also Photoshop (CS3) defaults to adobeRGB as it's default workspace - or at any rate, my copy did. So naturally the printer will need to get the wider colour information to print nice colours.
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