StevenG Loc: Long Island, NY

Thanks! He’s a natural.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Steve, thank you for the example. I took a crop of the image details for the birthday plate, where we might see some issues in the image rather than the print. The indoor lighting likely isn't going to yield 'pure white' for the more 'white' colors of the image, but adding a 'pure white' graphic item into the image begins to show the color tone of the likely whiter items of the image.

You can 'see' this image on your end and judge the white of the white and the tone of the other whiteish items in the edit and / or lighting where the image was captured. You can also judge how these section of the image have been printing.

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greenwork Loc: Southwest Florida

I switched print functions to Qimage (Qimage One for the mac) which cleared up things a lot for me. They have a 2 week trial that might be worth giving a test spin.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

It does not really matter. If you are printing from a raw file, Lightroom will apply the changes you made, convert the file to the printer/paper/ink profile of your choice, and send the data to the printer. OR, it will send the file through the Epson default profile and the printer driver will do the conversions. That only works with Epson inks and papers. (You choose which workflow to use.)

Be sure the LrC print module is configured properly! It is easy to screw it up. You have LrC settings AND driver settings that must be set properly. But be sure the color profile conversions are done in one place OR the other, not both.

delder Loc: Maryland

? Not a Lightroom frequent user, BUT, have you tried printing a file directly from your camera WITHOUT using LR?
Just a thought.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

While it may be possible to connect a camera to a printer and send files to print, there is little opportunity to enhance a JPEG in the camera. That said, there are applications where direct printing is useful.

In the school portrait industry, some companies print plastic ID cards on site when the photographer is in a school photographing students. A dye-sub plastic card printer is used. It's not a highly desirable thing for the photographer to do, but some schools like to get ID cards on registration day. We usually had several jobs a year where a sales territory had three setups in a school (three photographers, cameras, computers, lighting setups, backgrounds...). We had to MATCH the color and brightness of the images from all three cameras to each other, so the images would look great in the yearbook, and so the images would be acceptable for ID cards. What a royal PITA that was!

one_eyed_pete Loc: Colonie NY

There are so many variables that effect color. You need to start with a calibrated/profiled monitor. Then you must use a standard image (not on of your own images). Otherwise you are chasing your tail and can only identify the problem by luck.