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martyns96992618
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February 15, 2018
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Soft Proof and printing

  • February 15, 2018
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Hi.

I have just got myself a Canon Pro 100 printer and have an issue with the soft proof compared to the print. The issue is that the print not an accurate representation. I have what I believe to be the correct paper profit and have calibrated the screen through windows 10. Is there any settings I need to set with regards to Lightroom classic CC to have full control with printing.

Thanks in adavance

Martyn.

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    JP Hess
    Inspiring
    February 15, 2018

    What do you mean when you say you have calibrated the screen through Windows 10?

    martyns96992618
    Known Participant
    February 15, 2018

    Hi Jim

    I just carried out the "calibrate display colour" in the control panel. I know probably wont be the most accurate calibration, but its all I have at the moment.

    Martyn

    JP Hess
    Inspiring
    February 15, 2018

    And it's kind of what I suspected. That's all that I have as well. I have the same printer that you have. I'm glad to tell you how I "calibrated" my monitor. The printing experts are going to tell you that it is absolutely the worst way you can possibly do it. It's unreliable, it's not a good way to do it and shouldn't be done. But it has worked for me.

    Go online and search for something like "printing calibration photo". There are several of them available. Download a couple of them and load them into Photoshop or some other software and print them without doing any adjustments whatsoever. Then use your monitor adjustment buttons or any software you might have to adjust the monitor  to match the print. I call this the poor man's method of calibrating a monitor for printing. I know, it's not scientific, and it's much better to get a hardware calibration device. But I haven't ever purchased one and despite what the naysayers will argue, my prints match as close as I would ever expect them to.

    Just going through the Windows 10 calibration exercise isn't going to produce satisfactory results. It's probably going to produce a monitor rendering that is going to be too bright. At least that has been my experience. Anyway, you can try my method if you want. Or, if you really want to do it the right way you can purchase a Spyder or other hardware device and do a "real" monitor calibration.

    You also indicated that you have what you believe is the right profile. What you mean by that? Did you get the right profile for the paper you are using? And, did you make sure that you either turned off color management for the printer or for Lightroom? Double color management will create all kinds of problems.