Soft-proofing help

aktpics

I calibrated my monitors using huey pro, eliminated most of the room light, and soft-proofed for my epson R1800 using icc profiles for Premium Luster and Velvet fine art. When printing I am getting a bit of a red/magenta tint on either paper (more on the luster). I thought for sure it was a couple of clogged ink-jets, but the test pattern was perfect.

I could use some help, thanks.

arodney

aktpics wrote:

I calibrated my monitors using huey pro, eliminated most of the room light, and soft-proofed for my epson R1800 using icc profiles for Premium Luster and Velvet fine art. When printing I am getting a bit of a red/magenta tint on either paper (more on the luster). I thought for sure it was a couple of clogged ink-jets, but the test pattern was perfect.

Its possible its the printer misbehaving or the profile doesn't accurately describe how your printer is working.

aktpics

arodney wrote:

Its possible its the printer misbehaving or the profile doesn't accurately describe how your printer is working.

That would suck!!!

I noticed that when I calibrated the monitor that gamma and temperature were adjustable. I leave them at their default values when calibrating (Temp D65/Gamma 2.20). Changing to Temp D50 makes it warmer and probably closer to my printer output. I also changed the Gamma to 2.40 - it seemed to take the edge off of the temperature adjustment).

Is there any downside to the changes that I made?

Thanks!

arodney

aktpics wrote:

That would suck!!!

I noticed that when I calibrated the monitor that gamma and temperature were adjustable. I leave them at their default values when calibrating (Temp D65/Gamma 2.20). Changing to Temp D50 makes it warmer and probably closer to my printer output. I also changed the Gamma to 2.40 - it seemed to take the edge off of the temperature adjustment).

Is there any downside to the changes that I made?

Thanks!

You want to leave the display as close to factory default settings as possible if its an LCD (the only adjustment you have is backlight intensity). Stick with D50, a luminance of about 120-150cd/m2 and either native or a gamma of 2.2.

aktpics

arodney wrote:

You want to leave the display as close to factory default settings as possible if its an LCD (the only adjustment you have is backlight intensity). Stick with D50, a luminance of about 120-150cd/m2 and either native or a gamma of 2.2.

Yeah, it does look better back to D50. I guess I can go back to the old-fashioned way and look at my monitor through a magenta filter...

Thanks for your help, btw!