Digital BW, The Print

Steve,
But as far as I can tell you haven't profiled your ABW printing path, so you
have only profiled half the workflow.
If you don't have a reflective spectro to profile prints, you can try and
fudge it.

Epson set up ABW so that the "dark" setting approximately matches gamma 2.2
image.
Note on a Mac your default gamma is probably 1.8.

I would Google Epson ABW and read up about how to use this with and without
printer profiling.

Mike



2008/11/24 Stephen Kobrin <kobrins@...>

>   I find that my prints are consistently darker than my screen. I use a
> Macbook Pro and an external 24" Dell monitor. I have profiled the
> monitor with a Xrite eyeone -2 and print on a 2400 using ABW. The
> prints are consistently darker than the screen even when I use basic
> Epson papers (e.g., EEM). I have CS3 set correctly to no color
> management and selected the paper correctly. The monitor is connected
> via a DVI cable. The monitor does not have a contrast adjustment, but
> I can adjust the brightness. However, I assumed that the eyeone takes
> care of that during the profiling process.
>
> The tonal rendition (shadows, highlights and midtones) looks ok to my
> very amateur eye. The only problem seems to be that the prints are
> consistently darker than the monitor. While I can increase brightness
> using a curve before I print, that seems to defeat the whole idea of
> profiling.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Steve
>
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