If you are concerned about your profile, use the profile that the paper
manufacturer has made for your printer. Most of them are pretty decent in my
experience and you could then see if your profile is the problem. As I noted
you do need to find a good standard test print. You can print it letting the
printer manage colors and see if you still get a dark print. I don’t print
from Photoshop only Lightroom and don’t know if there are somethings that need
to be done in Photoshop but it is possible to double profile which can cause
problems. Just double check all the settings in your work flow along with
making sure the printer driver is current. Only other possibility is that
there is something wrong with your printer.
Alan
From: argyllcms-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <argyllcms-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf
Of Yves Gauvreau
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2022 4:09 PM
To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [argyllcms] Re: Prints to dark, how to fix this?
On 3/18/2022 12:01 PM, Alan Goldhammer (agoldhammer) wrote:
This video from Andrew Rodney is useful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS6sjZmxjY4 ;
What happens if you print a standardized image from your printer?
I forgot to try this.
Are the colors and brightness level correct?
I use Photoshop to soft proof the image before printing and I make a copy
without soft proofing active and I try to match them as best as I can. Whatever
I do here, the print is much darker, it's unacceptable to me when I have to
tweak my image before printing, that's guess work.
What is the light source you are viewing the "too dark images" under? Perhaps
your viewing light source is not bright enough. Remember, prints are
reflective; the monitor is transmissive. Personally, I think your screen
brightness is very low. Are you using it in a dark room?
I use a high CRI > 95 5000K 800 Lumens Led bulb to view my prints and about 2
feet above the print. My screen is a BenQ SW270C that I hardware calibrated
with my I1 Pro 2 and on top of that I made another profile with DisplayCal and
I get pretty good results, nothing above 1.0 DE2000 and I view my screen in
about 30 lux of light measured at 2 feet from my screen.
I'm practically certain it's the profile but I don't know how to test this
hypothesis and if I'm right, I don't know either how to correct it so I don't
have to tweak my image all the time, I'm not convinced at all that this is the
way to go.
Yves
