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Dark prints Problem

Debisphotos
Newbie here.
I am using 9.2 (trial). I have a calibrated (colormunki) display. I am using a pro-100 printer.
I edited my pictures and am very happy how they look on my monitor, but they are coming out very dark from the printer.
I have turned off the processing within the printer and set the icc to the correct paper in capture one.
Any ideas?
Thanks, love the product so far.
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  • Jochen Beck
    To which candela value did you set display brightness during the calibration?
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  • Debisphotos
    i believe it was 82

    btw, the prints were coming out good using lightroom.
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  • Jochen Beck
    Do I understand correctly that you selected the icc profile of the paper in your export recipe?
    Do your prints come out too dark also if you set the icc profile to sRGB or AdobeRGB?
    In my understanding, paper icc profiles are for softproofing and are not intended to be actually embedded into the final image.
    Best regards,
    Jochen
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  • HansB
    Just to prevent confusion: proof profiles for proofing, paper profiles for printing, and none of them for exporting an image. 😊

    Do you have the right combination of settings in CO's print dialog and the printer driver?
    It sounds like you are printing on photo paper and using media settings for fine art papers. Too much ink, so too dark.

    I'm not sure what the settings must be for a Pro-100. But for example:

    On an Epson SC-P800 with Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Bright White you set
    the media type in the printer driver ('Print Settings...') to Velvet Fine Art,
    the paper profile in CO's print dialog to the downloaded Photo Rag Bright White,
    and you send an AdobeRGB or sRGB image file to the printer.

    The media type in the printer driver controls the amount of ink, so I would look there first.
    Make sure you selected the right one.


    Regards,
    Hans
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  • Debisphotos
    [quote="HansB" wrote:
    Just to prevent confusion: proof profiles for proofing, paper profiles for printing, and none of them for exporting an image. 😊

    Do you have the right combination of settings in CO's print dialog and the printer driver?
    It sounds like you are printing on photo paper and using media settings for fine art papers. Too much ink, so too dark.

    I'm not sure what the settings must be for a Pro-100. But for example:

    On an Epson SC-P800 with Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Bright White you set
    the media type in the printer driver ('Print Settings...') to Velvet Fine Art,
    the paper profile in CO's print dialog to the downloaded Photo Rag Bright White,
    and you send an AdobeRGB or sRGB image file to the printer.

    The media type in the printer driver controls the amount of ink, so I would look there first.
    Make sure you selected the right one.


    Regards,
    Hans


    Yes, I did all the above. In the printer I set the paper to the pro lustre semi-gloss, I turn off the feature where the printer manages the color, and I set the paper profile in CO to the canon paper.

    Thanks!
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  • HansB
    That was my best guess. I have to do some printing today myself (on the Epson), so I'll report back if I see something unusual.


    Regards,
    Hans
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