[Leica] Prints are way too dark. Driven to distraction

[Ken Carney]

Lew,

I think you made this clear, but it's the only thing I can think of:  
You're assigning the paper profile in the printer color management for 
LR, right?

On 2/28/2015 4:02 PM, Lew Schwartz wrote:
> I'm printing on Epson Proofing, using LR 5.7, Epson 4880, ViewSonic monitor
> and I've just re-profiled monitor and printer using colormunki, plus I
> confirm that both monitor and printer are using the new profiles. The
> resulting prints are aprox 2- 4 stops too dark. Too dark is an on going
> problem for me, LR, the 4880 and this monitor; I expected things to get
> better after the colormunki stuff. I've just been winging a solution in the
> past by using the exposure control in the LR develop module and the
> brightness setting in the print module. Not a great solution, but workable.
> Now, with these new profiles, I'm not even close. WTF? Things are way
> worse. What am I missing?
>
> -Lew Schwartz
>
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