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Dismal calibration between imac and Epson P800
flappinfish:
Hi,
I'd like to preface this with saying that I'm not terribly familiar with consumer inject printers. Im a photoshop artist lucky enough to have a calibration guy to bug when monitor/printer issues arise. But I'm helping a friend out to make some prints for a show on his new Surecolor P800 and our calibration attempts are failing dismally for images that fall in the mid-tone to 3/4 tone and darker range. Saturated midtone dominant images look acceptable to me, but below mid-tone and moving into 3/4 tone look way off (screen bright-print dark) (screen saturated, prints losing almost all color) looks blocked up with little tonal dimension.
Hardware: 2016 Imac 27" El Capitan - PSD CC 2016
Calibrator: Spyder5 -gamma 2.2- lum = 120 - D65
Epson P800- photoshop manages color, epson luster paper ICC's
I used to print to wide format epsons and Iris printers and never saw such huge discrepancies in these tone ranges.
Is the Imac display just too sharp and saturated to accurately soft proof on?
Thanks in Advance!
Benny Profane:
--- Quote from: flappinfish on August 27, 2016, 11:38:51 pm ---Hi,
I'd like to preface this with saying that I'm not terribly familiar with consumer inject printers. Im a photoshop artist lucky enough to have a calibration guy to bug when monitor/printer issues arise. But I'm helping a friend out to make some prints for a show on his new Surecolor P800 and our calibration attempts are failing dismally for images that fall in the mid-tone to 3/4 tone and darker range. Saturated midtone dominant images look acceptable to me, but below mid-tone and moving into 3/4 tone look way off (screen bright-print dark) (screen saturated, prints losing almost all color) looks blocked up with little tonal dimension.
Hardware: 2016 Imac 27" El Capitan - PSD CC 2016
Calibrator: Spyder5 -gamma 2.2- lum = 120 - D65
Epson P800- photoshop manages color, epson luster paper ICC's
I used to print to wide format epsons and Iris printers and never saw such huge discrepancies in these tone ranges.
Is the Imac display just too sharp and saturated to accurately soft proof on?
Thanks in Advance!
--- End quote ---
Yes, pretty much. You need a more serious monitor, either an Eizo or NEC.
howardm:
I would disagree w/ that (at least as a primary factor).
You coould try using different software, like dispcal/argyll or different hardware, like an i1Display Pro or Munki Display first. The Spyder's do *not* have a great reputation.
Also, make sure you set the software to use or at least attempt to use the right monitor backlight (CCFL vs. any number of LED variations)
PeterAit:
Double profiling?
JRSmit:
Under what lighting do you examineren your prints? A monitor luminance setting of 120 would mean some serious lighting of your print to match.
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