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nemophoto

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Strange soft proofing/printing
« on: June 05, 2012, 01:03:02 pm »

Has anyone else experienced what I'd call posterization of contrasting highlights when printing from Lightroom? I was using a new paper from Breathing Color - Pura Smooth. I used their canned profile (initially). I had some strange results with skies, where there was a posterization. Looking at the image in Lightroom, all seems fine. Then I printed it -- whoa! What's that. I turned on the soft proofing in Lightroom, and there it was -- crappy as can be. I opened the image in Photoshop and proofed it -- no problems I could see. Is there something funky with the LR print engine?

I printing with a Canon iPF6100. In PS, I often use the Canon Print plugin. Any thoughts? I don't really have a lot to back up this next statement - more a feeling from what I've seen, but it seems like the results printed from LR 3 were better with better blacks, contrast, etc. --regardless of paper type.

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Re: Strange soft proofing/printing
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2012, 02:09:15 pm »

If you see posterization in the soft proof and the output, I’m pretty sure it is the profile. I’m not sure why you don’t see the same in Photoshop.
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Re: Strange soft proofing/printing
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2012, 07:37:10 pm »

Thanks. I've been delving into this deeper with xrite tech support. Part of the issue is a truly crappy canned profile. The other is something is very rotten Denmak with my i1 spectro...
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