Lightroom Printing and Soft Proofing
Nov 20, 2014 23:18:23 #
Need assistance with printing from Lightroom 5 using Epson 2200. I have read many of the posts and still have not seen a resolution to my issue. The image is a Canon raw CR2 image with some post processing, monitor is a new iMac 27" calibrated with Spyder 4. Correct profiles are loaded for the Epson paper. Print looks great on the screen, but when i i click the box in soft proofing to "simulate paper and ink", the image appears to loose contrast and the best description I can give is that a slight haze comes over the entire image. I do not know what settings I can do to the proof preview to fix it. Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.
Nov 21, 2014 00:13:57 #
What happens when you check the simulate paper and ink button is Lightroom (and Photoshop) attempt to give you a preview of what your print will look like. It appears you have done everything right. You might try changing the rendering intent (Relative Colormetric or Perceptual) to see what looks best.
Have you tried making a print without the soft proofing? If not, try it and compare it to what you have on your screen. Make any necessary adjustments to match the screen image. Remember, you are viewing an image with transmitted light (the screen) with a print (reflected light); they will never be exact.
If you still want to soft proof, create a virtual copy of your soft proof and use the Develop Module to try to adjust the soft proof to match your original image.
Matching screen image to print takes practice, patience, and persistence.
Let us know how you make out!
Have you tried making a print without the soft proofing? If not, try it and compare it to what you have on your screen. Make any necessary adjustments to match the screen image. Remember, you are viewing an image with transmitted light (the screen) with a print (reflected light); they will never be exact.
If you still want to soft proof, create a virtual copy of your soft proof and use the Develop Module to try to adjust the soft proof to match your original image.
Matching screen image to print takes practice, patience, and persistence.
Let us know how you make out!
Nov 21, 2014 04:45:57 #
pbfcpa wrote:
Need assistance with printing from Lightroom 5 usi... (show quote)
The best printing solution is a RIP. Short of that the nearly as good second printing solution is Qimage Ultimate. It has a soft proof capability and it deals with adjusting and optimizing the print.
As far as printing is concerned, the general approach is to adjust the image on screen to look the way you like, dealing with the display system color space and gamut. Then you view the image using the printer/paper/ink gamut. There will be differences, because the display gamut, while close, does not exactly match the output gamut. And that will change with each different paper.
So you make adjustments to the softproof, either in LR or in Qimage until you get it to where you want.
Nov 21, 2014 05:57:13 #
Nov 21, 2014 09:14:10 #
I have the same set-up that you describe and, apparently, similar issues. After much experimentation I've concluded that about the only way to get prints that match what I'm seeing on the monitor is to try various profiles in color management. I've narrowed it down to about 4 profiles and usually one of those will work with the photo I'm printing. The frustrating part is that it's never the same one. It appears that it depends on the characteristics of the particular photo which profile will produce the best result. Love the 2200 even though very old technology.
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