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Peter McLennan

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LR and PS prints from the same file don't match
« on: December 16, 2018, 07:56:48 pm »

If I print the same file from Photoshop and Lightroom, the Lightroom print is about a stop lighter than the Photoshop print. Same media, same printer, same file, same profile, same media settings in the printer dialog.

The LR "Print Preview" image also looks about a stop brighter than the same image in Library or Develop.

What's happening?
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Re: LR and PS prints from the same file don't match
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2018, 08:02:13 pm »

did you check in the LR Print module, all the way at the bottom of the right side, the Brightness & Contrast slider and assure they are ZERO'd ?

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Re: LR and PS prints from the same file don't match
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2018, 10:18:39 pm »

I did, thanks howardm.  Not only zeroed, but inactive (not checked)
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Peter McLennan

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Re: LR and PS prints from the same file don't match
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2018, 11:17:43 am »

Bump.  Nobody?
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Re: LR and PS prints from the same file don't match
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2018, 12:30:29 pm »

Yeah. Try the test again with a color reference image: http://www.digitaldog.net/files/2014PrinterTestFileFlat.tif.zip\
Next, in LR's Print module, start from scratch, not from any template and double check everything between the two applications are identical.
DO not set the print driver, certainly if an Epson to anything but Default Settings (not a preset one can build in the driver).
Need to know the printer and OS, that be useful.
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Re: LR and PS prints from the same file don't match
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2018, 04:38:10 pm »

Andrew: THANK YOU!   8)

Buried two levels deep in the LR-referenced Epson driver, I found I'd left the control set to "ICM", when it should be "No Colour Adjustment", as it was in the Photoshop version. :(

You caused me to check yet again, something I could have sworn I'd checked many times before.  So, thanks for that.  Dumb, me.

It's an Epson L-850.  One of the six-ink "Eco Tank" printers.  A delight, if I do say so myself.
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