Re: Two tricolor prints: a question
This is usually due to an error in printer driver settings. This can easily happen with earlier Epson printers when you use a preset that is supposed to "remember" all the settings for digital negatives... quite often the one that will fail to be "remembered" is the "no color adjustment" setting under printer color management—and this makes for a puny negative and a dark print. Accidently working with a file in sRGB color space will also cause this. Also, Camden's suggestion about monitor brightness is a good one.... I keep my monitor set at #4 with #1 being the most dim setting and 16 being the brightest (Mac flat screen). Best Wishes, Mark Nelson Precision Digital Negatives - The System PDNPrint Forum at Yahoo Groups www.MarkINelsonPhoto.com In a message dated 9/28/07 7:16:45 PM, kthayer@pacifier.com writes: Well, I figured out what the problem is, I think, but I'm not sure why it's happening or how to fix it. Two different colorized negatives, same applied color, same negative media, same pigment mix, same paper, same everything. With one, a negative I've been using a lot lately for test prints of various kinds and has been printing beautifully, a given density prints as paper white, just as I intended. With the other (one of the separations from the example I showed), same negative color, same curve, same pigment mix, etc, the exact same density prints substantial unwanted tone. After going back and forth comparing the test strips, the charts, the test prints, the digital negative files, to no avail, I finally took the actual physical negatives and put them next to each other. The color layers have the same color layer applied in screen mode (R255, G89, B89) but the physical negatives aren't the same color. The ones I've been using before so successfully are more orange; the new ones, that aren't working well, are more red. I always do a nozzle check before I print negatives, and clean if necessary til the nozzle check prints perfectly. So it shouldn't be a clogged nozzle that's accounting for these negatives suddenly printing a different color. But what could it be? The print settings are the same in both cases. Katharine Best Wishes, Mark Nelson Precision Digital Negatives - The System PDNPrint Forum at Yahoo Groups www.MarkINelsonPhoto.com ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com |