Personally I print to my 3800 straight from PS - always have - and I have no problems at all. The link above will also help with this.Ī lot of people recommend Qimage and I'm sure that it works well for them. Typically, a 60W bulb at a distance of about 50cm from the print will match the brightness of a monitor set at 120cd/m2. This means you need to view the print in a pretty bright light. To get the print to "match" the monitor you need to match the brightness of the paper white to that of the monitor. The fact that the colours look right is all you need to worry about. This is because it is displaying the image that has already been colour managed by PS. If you are letting PS manage colour then the Epson preview will always look "wrong" in some way. When I printed using printer colour management, the Epson print preview looks fine and prints correctly (colour wise). However, when I printed it, the colours seem fine. When I use Photoshop's colour management, the Epson Preview screen comes out with a red cast ( I remember now why I originally didn't go any further with this). I then used one image and printed it twice, once using Photoshop colour management and the other one for the printer colour management. If your monitor calibrator doesn't allow you to set luminance then you may want to try this Lower than the factory setting on all LCD monitors. OK, I started from scratch and recalibrated my monitor.>ĭid you set the luminance of your monitor to a known value? Commonly recommended values are between 100 and 140 cd/m2. So any further suggestions are welcome, I really would like to start using the printer with confidence instead of a 'hit and miss' approach. so I am still not getting this right.ĭavid, I looked at Qimage but I couldn't make out if it was a RIP or not and thought at that price it can't be so thought no more about it ! I presume you use it very successfully on your 4800. So I experimented by dropping the brightness down on my screen to see if I could reproduce the result to the printout, but not really, and also, that knocks out the calibration. the exposure has dropped 1/2 a stop kind of effect. The next issue is that the prints appear dull compared to the screen i.e. OK, I started from scratch and recalibrated my monitor. I have run several Epson printers over the years, presentlty still with the Epson 4800 and use paper manufacturer profiles with very good results, to include Epson. I would not purchase a RIP at this time if in your situation and probably not at all. If you want to learn more about color management then take their advice for PS as it applies to Qimage as well. However, meanwhile I agree with the others who suggest that you are not printing with anything controlling color management right now. And to me the big plus is I leave all my original files at their original size and sharpening before I print and let Qimage size them for me in a tag mode only ( the original doesn't get cropped). Once you get going printing from Qimage you will wonder why you bothered with any other way. Plus crop with ease and resize with interpolation beyond what PS offers in it's base state, at a very reasonable price for entering the fold. Other features would be as it suggests, you can queue up your print run. Just a suggestion but Qimage is a lot less expensive than a RIP, makes high end use of your printer and the latest version will flag you down when you have a mismatch. Media Type: Ultra Premium Photo Paper LusterĬolor Adjustment: Off(No Color Adjustment) Use Dither (8-bit/channel images) is tickedĭesaturate Monitor Colors by 20% Untickedĭocument (Profiles sRGB IEC61966-2.1) selected Profile Mismatches and Missing Profiles are unticked.
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