Printer calibration: I recently puchased an Epson Artisan 1430 printer. I have calibrated my monitors to the pc using Spyder Pro. The prints are color correct but consistantly lower in...

aphelps Loc: Central Ohio

I recently puchased an Epson Artisan 1430 printer. I have calibrated my monitors to the pc using Spyder Pro. The prints are color correct but consistantly lower in brightness than shown on the monitor. Is there a way to calibrate the printer to the pc? I suppose I could correct by recalibrating the monitor to a lower brightness. Any thoughts on this?

TomV Loc: Annapolis, Maryland

Recalibrate the monitor to the brightness level of the print. If you cannot do that, then get another monitor, that is what I had to do. I have a nice Dell monitor that is set to 10% brightness, 70% contrast and 5000K. Using Color Munki, set for D50 and 100 cd/m.

OnDSnap Loc: NE New Jersey

Sure you can calibrate the printer, color management can be quite in depth. Other than adjusting monitor brightness etc. as already mentioned...If your printing from from say PS or another layer allowed program, create a merged layer on top Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E, set blend mode to Screen, at about 25% opacity (name it Printing Layer)...send a test print...adjust the % as needed. Once dialed in, you can pretty much use that percentage on most of your prints with that monitor /printer combo. When done printing shut off that layer, use the one below for screen etc.,etc.. I do this all the time and works great. I have to credit Matt Kloskowski for this idea, If I recall, he discussed this in one of his classes.

aphelps Loc: Central Ohio

OnDSnap wrote:

Sure you can calibrate the printer, color manageme... (show quote)

Thanks, sounds good.

lsimpkins Loc: SE Pennsylvania

aphelps wrote:

I recently puchased an Epson Artisan 1430 printer. I have calibrated my monitors to the pc using Spyder Pro. The prints are color correct but consistantly lower in brightness than shown on the monitor. Is there a way to calibrate the printer to the pc? I suppose I could correct by recalibrating the monitor to a lower brightness. Any thoughts on this?

As mentioned, you have several choices -
recalibrate with a lower brightness setting on your monitor
buy a calibration system/tools that includes the printer (and a scanner if you have one)
use adjustment layers
if using Lightroom for printing, the very bottom of the right hand column in the Print Module has "Print Adjustment" which permits you to raise the brightness of the print. I would also recommend the "Soft Proofing" capability of LR using the correct printer and paper profile having LR manage color rather than the printer.

aphelps Loc: Central Ohio

lsimpkins wrote:

As mentioned, you have several choices - br recal... (show quote)

Thanks for your help!

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

aphelps wrote:

I recently puchased an Epson Artisan 1430 printer. I have calibrated my monitors to the pc using Spyder Pro. The prints are color correct but consistantly lower in brightness than shown on the monitor. Is there a way to calibrate the printer to the pc? I suppose I could correct by recalibrating the monitor to a lower brightness. Any thoughts on this?

This is a very common problem. Either lower the brightness on your monitor or if your printer settings has and advanced adjustment for brightness of the printed image try adjusting about 15% brighter. My Canon Pro-1000 printer has this feature but I chose to lower my monitor calibrated brightness to 100 lumens and now my prints are very close to what I see on my screen.

aphelps Loc: Central Ohio

jeep_daddy wrote:

This is a very common problem. Either lower the brightness on your monitor or if your printer settings has and advanced adjustment for brightness of the printed image try adjusting about 15% brighter. My Canon Pro-1000 printer has this feature but I chose to lower my monitor calibrated brightness to 100 lumens and now my prints are very close to what I see on my screen.

I decreased monitor brightness re calibrated for color and that fixed. Thanks all, for your help.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

aphelps wrote:

I decreased monitor brightness re calibrated for color and that fixed. Thanks all, for your help.