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Hi,

I have recently purchased spyder 3 studio SR. I am using photoshop on a mitsubishi diamond monitor and an epson 9600 printer.

After profiling my monitor, I printed (no colour management etc) expert targets plus grey (4 of 4), read them and created my print profile. I then ran a test using my old (purchased) profile and my new self created profile. With the new profile being the winner in my eyes. Stronger colours etc, but not too much of a difference from my old purchased profile.

My problem is when I now open that same file on my monitor. 'Assign' my new print profile, it looks terrible? Colour is completely drained from the image and it looks nothing like the print? I am going to re-profile my monitor to see if this helps. But is there a reason as to why this looks so different on-screen? My goal is to match screen to print and vice versa?

Thanks in advance for any advice...

On Mar 9, 2011, at 5:49 AM, mattscanvas wrote:

> My problem is when I now open that same file on my monitor. 'Assign' my new print profile, it looks terrible? 

One should never use the "Assign Profile" command to assign a printer profile to a display. If you mean you are using Photoshop's Custom Proof Setup function, and don't like the result, then you are now into the area of adjusting the softproof settings in Photoshop, and very likely adjusting the softproof settings of your profile as well. You will need to play with the ink black and paper white settings for softproofing in Photoshop to see where your issue is. You can then build a new version of your profile if you like, adjusting the whitepoint value (usually to account for paper whiteners, a b* adjustment) and the ink black value (this is the one that typically "drains" a print, you probably want to assign a much lower L* value), to tune your softproof for optimal softproofing. There are checkboxes to make a general correction for each of these, but you may prefer to adjust these values yourself for greater control.

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Imaging Color Solutions
CDTobie@...

On Mar 9, 2011, at 5:49 AM, mattscanvas wrote:

> But is there a reason as to why this looks so different on-screen?

My guess is that you are using a matte paper, where ink black is high, say around L*= 20, and are used to seeing a much darker black representation on screen. Which you can adjust as needed for your profile, as described previously.

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Imaging Color Solutions
CDTobie@...