jeffstone123

After using Ps for many years. I have been away from it for awhile and have recently signed up for lightroom. In anticipation of the arrival of my new to me Epson R3000 bought from a UHH member. I hooked up a smaller epson printer last night and when i print from a file on computer it prints right (top photo) but when i print from lightroom it is pale and streaky (bottom photo). Please tell me how dumb i am and what i am obviously doing wrong. thanks jeff

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berchman Loc: South Central PA

Without seeing screen shots of your Lightroom print settings, I don't see how anyone can help you with this.

Mundj Loc: Richmond TX

My first thought is to access the printer utilities and run the nozzle cleaning routine and then check the nozzle alignment.

rmm0605 Loc: Atlanta GA

Jeff, it's not the printer. As you say both were printed with the same printer. Check your Lightroom settings very carefully. Something must be wrong there.

Meemz

When I print to my cannon pro 4000 ( I always forget how many 0s there are). I use the soft ware that comes w /the printer. I can tweak the colors in the printer better w/ their software.. just put it in as a plug in extra. Scot Kelby's book on lightroom CC has a whole section on printing from lightroom.

minniev Loc: MIssissippi

Were both prints from the same printer and on the same type of paper? Are they both derived from the same image? Do you have the latest printer driver?

My assumption is that the first is printed from a file exported out of LR or some other software and the second is printed directly from LR.If so, I'd venture a guess that the second one may be suffering from a conflict in print settings. Possibly your print settings in LR are for LR to manage the colors and your printer settings call for the printer to manage the colors. To get a good outcome, only one can manage the colors and LR and printer settings have to agree. For your older printer it may be better to let the printer manage the colors, but it has to be set that way in both LR and the printer dialogue. But that may or may not solve your problem.

I have an r3000 and get great results printing directly from LR using specific paper profiles and letting LR manage colors. I also get great results letting the printer manage colors if I'm using common consumer Epson papers. But I've had older/cheaper printers where trying to use profiles was hopeless, output directly from LR was never what I expected, and I usually ended up printing from PS or from Apple Photos.

You can often find good advice online by googling a very specific query such as "lightroom prints too dark epson 830" or something such as that. I've found solutions to several printing dilemmas that way.

Also, there is a specific UHH subforum about printing that you might want to try.

jeffstone123

thank you very much for the reply. i think you have me on right track.

paulw Loc: nottinghamshire

In Lightroom printer module select managed by Lightroom (download paper profile) and turn off print management on your printer

big-guy Loc: Peterborough Ontario Canada

oo-rah

byjoe Loc: Stillwater, OK

Could it be that the paper you inserted for the Lightroom print be wrong side up. Not many papers are dual side printable. Just a thought.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

What is your color management set to? In your printer's dialog, you have the choice to either >allow printer to manage colors<, or >allow Photoshop (or LR) to manage colors. If you went for >allow Photoshop to manage colors<, then you also have to set color management to "OFF", if you don't, you'll get prints looking like that, because the printers driver interferes with it and tries to manage colors as well, so you will get "color salad"!










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