Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Walker
Blackwell" <walker@...> wrote:
>
> I noticed that too. Lightroom doesn't have soft-proofing yet either.
> The color-engine in Lightroom (although solid) isn't totally fleshed
> out. I'm assuming (I hope rightfully) that Adobe will fully develop it
> in the next updates. It could be an issue with the ProPhoto
> source-space. I noticed that Lightroom out-put to older 9600 drivers
> doesn't work because those drivers can't do the conversion from source
> profile to output profile correctly. As an organization, tiling, and
> processing program it's pretty good so far. And in comparison to
> StudioPrint (that doesn't have profile support for monochrome printing
> either) it's totally there.
> 
> take care, Walker
>
I can't get a decent print out of Lightroom, so to me the print-engine
seems far from solid.
I have been printing successfully using Photoshop, a calibrated
monitor, and custom icc print profiles for several years.
Using identical settings in Lightroom produces far darker, and hence
unusable prints.
I like the Library and develop modules, but if I still have to go into
Photoshop to produce a decent print, Lightroom is a non-starter.

Geoff