Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/06/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You didn;t mention whether you are using printer color management or Photoshop generic profile. e.g. if you are double profiling, then all bets are off. However, your image will be a challenge, I think. The deep shadow is a killer for most printers, I think. Certainly, that's the one area of problems for my printing on my HP Z3100 (color managed workflow). On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com>wrote: > All, > > I am having serious problems trying to print to and HP Photosmart C4780. > (B&W) > Images that are dark and crisp on screen are coming out grey and flat, > without > sufficient depth of black (Dmax). I have tried printing in greyscale and in > colour. I have printed using both Gray 2.2 and SRGB; perceptual on and off. > > It's running off a PC running PSE over XP. HOwever I have tried printing > similar > images from Gimp over Linux (Ubuntu) connected to the same printer and the > problems are pretty much the same. > > I checked both the screen against reference charts and it is OK. > > The papers that I have been trying to use are Ilford Galerie - several > kinds - > and Harman Gloss FB AI. All produce the same sort of results. Interestingly > the > results are sometimes better if the image size is reduced. > > Ilford/Harman don't have a profile for this printer/paper combination. > > Anyone any thoughts? > > Peter > > For reference the photo is here: > > < > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PeterDzwig/album83/album293/GordesSunrise23460022_edited-1.tif.html > > > (I know its v. high contrast, but there is detail in the shadows that I > want. > -- > > =========================================================== > Dr Peter Dzwig > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]