Datacolor User to User Support Group.

Thanks Walt,

I've read and followed the help pages on everything but the really obvious. I'm using an 
Apple Cinema Display 23", dark ambient light conditions, tungsten mostly but occasionally 
daylight. I should add though (from my years of shooting transparency for starters) I do 
understand light sources and how they affect prints, and I'm sure to compare with other 
light sources or at least mentally take it into consideration. My problems go beyond that. 

I've turned down the backlight on my monitor all the way (I think it measures in the 50s 
range), to test, and the prints are still considerably darker than what I see on the monitor. 
Simply turning downt he luminance won't do the trick. 

I'm going to do some more testing tonight and see what I can find out. I've been over 
every step of the process several times and so far I can't discover anything I'm doing 
"wrong", though this may be more of an art than a science. I'd prefer science though, art 
gets expensive in ink and paper. 


--- In colorvision_group@...m, wkm@... wrote:
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> OK you're new to this sort of thing. I highly recommend you read the help files at each 
step in printfix pro when making your profiles untill you understand it better. Can't help 
you with the pull down menus as I've never had that problem. What type of monitor, LCD 
or CRT. If CRT then luminance of 100 is ok but for LCD I think it should be lower. What are 
the ambient light conditions? bright, dark? What type of room lights? Incandesant, 
florescent?
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> Walt
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