Luminous Landscape Forum
Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: Muizen on November 05, 2007, 04:35:39 pm
-
T thought that my printing problem whereby photos are showing a redish color was solved by following a tip I received to use the Canon MP800 SP2 color profile, as present in the printing module.
This did indeed improve the print reproduction quality. But not for all photos!
I had to conclude that the color reproduction (redish) still varies strongly among the photos I print.
To my surprise when I selected 'Draft Mode Printing' I got the best print reproduction ever!
I understand that Draft mode printing uses the cached previews or if necessary, the built-in previews, which seems to be acceptable when the photos are small (viz Scott Kelby's Lightroom Book).
I am tempted to print in Draft, to finally solve my LR' print repro problem, but would like to understand whether this really is an option?
I also wonder what one can conclude from the fact that draft mode printing works well contrary to normal mode printing?
Thank you for your advise!
-
Depends on the settings for the catalog. You should set Preview Quality to High, that should get you from sRGB to ProPhoto RGB built previews even for Draft, that may help here. That of course assumes you've built high quality (not embedded) previews.