Datacolor User to User Support Group.

Well, who says miracles don't happen!! I made another printer profile
for Epson HW Matte paper and it worked just fine. Now that I have one
bullet in my gun, so to speak, I may go back and redo the one for HP
Brochure paper to see what I did wrong. I went to MIS inks and ordered
the refillable/filled carts and the inkset with the universal ink if I
print any glossy prints. Life is good again. It's such a shame I
allowed something as trivial as a computer/software/printer to disturb
me as much as it did. Well, it was a lesson telling me to retrain my
patience some more. Now to go to QTR and refine those profiles/curves
to create an ICC for the paper(s)/ink combinations. The search for the
Holy Grail of printing never ends. I'll get back to taking images when
the weather cools down a little in the sunny South.

Your happier friend in Photography,

Johnny

--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, "Johnny Eades" <jeades1@...>
wrote:
>
> CD,
> It's when I print from Photoshop with the created Printer Profile from
> PFP. In photoshop the image is bright and clear, and on paper it is
> much much darker with little shadow detail showing. For example in a
> portrait that appears correct in photoshop, the skin tone is about 1-1
> 1/2 zones darker that it should be. The photoshop and printer settings
> are described below in a proevious message that is quoted. Other than
> a little different location in the driver for the 2400, it's pretty
> much straightforward and very similar to the settings for the 1280.
> The same image printed on the 2400 and the 1280 is very different with
> the 2400 being much darker on the scale of values from dark shadow to
> bright highlights.
> 
> Still confused as whether it is PFP, PShop, or me!!!!????
> 
> 
> 
> --- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, CDTobie@ wrote:
> >
> > One possible cause for such a discrepency is that your proofing light 
> > is dimmer than your monitor, so it looks bright on screen, and darker 
> > in print. This is only an issue for LCDs, for the most part. Try the 
> > Ambient Light feature in Spyder2PRO v2.2. And be sure to use Custom 
> > Proof Setup in Photoshop. Are your prints too dark from PrintFIX
PRO's 
> > Print Preview screen, or only from Photoshop?
> > 
> > C. David Tobie
> > Product Technology Manager
> > ColorVision, Inc.
> > CDTobie@
> > www.colorvision.com
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jeades1@
> > To: colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:14 PM
> > Subject: [colorvision_group] New printer  new profiles new problems
> > 
> >    Help folks,
> > 
> > I have a new Epson R2400 printer and am having great difficulty
> > creating a workable profile with PFP 1.1.1. I have followed the same
> > procedure as when creating profiles for the Epson 1280, but seem to
> > get very dark prints. The monitor is calibrated with the Spyder with
> > PFP as the profile creator. The prints from within PFP look ok, but
> > using the profile to print from Photoshop is where I am obviously
> > making my errors. I set up the printer in Photoshop to let Photoshop
> > determine colors. The workspace is Adobe RGB 1998. In the printer
> > driver settings I choose Quality option=Photo;
> > Advanced=colormanagement=ICM with Off(no color admustment), assuming
> > that means color management off for the printer and letting Photoshop
> > manage it.
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> > 
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