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Hi there
I’ve spent all day trying to figure out what’s wrong with my system and I’d really appreciate some help.
Basically, I’m trying to make my prints resemble what’s on my monitor (or rather the other way round), and after following Manuals my prints come out way lighter than screen.
My system looks like this: EIZO LCD monitor (L568) on a PC with Radeon 9000 card, calibrated with Spyder and OptiCal 3.7.8, printer – HP DeskJet 5652 (photo inks on HP Premium Glossy paper), and Photoshop CS. It’s definitely not state of art config, but surely capable of producing decent results… Thing is, monitor really looks allllmost like the print, but only when I set Gamma 1.8 in OptiCal !!!
Is this normal? I’s written on the stone that PC gamma i supposed to be 2.2 and 1.8 reserved for Macs… Or maybe that’s why PROS work on Macs, or maybe just forget all rules and regs and stick with settings that give the closest results? It’s all a little confusing…
Thanks a lot for all help
-Tom-
I’ve spent all day trying to figure out what’s wrong with my system and I’d really appreciate some help.
Basically, I’m trying to make my prints resemble what’s on my monitor (or rather the other way round), and after following Manuals my prints come out way lighter than screen.
My system looks like this: EIZO LCD monitor (L568) on a PC with Radeon 9000 card, calibrated with Spyder and OptiCal 3.7.8, printer – HP DeskJet 5652 (photo inks on HP Premium Glossy paper), and Photoshop CS. It’s definitely not state of art config, but surely capable of producing decent results… Thing is, monitor really looks allllmost like the print, but only when I set Gamma 1.8 in OptiCal !!!
Is this normal? I’s written on the stone that PC gamma i supposed to be 2.2 and 1.8 reserved for Macs… Or maybe that’s why PROS work on Macs, or maybe just forget all rules and regs and stick with settings that give the closest results? It’s all a little confusing…
Thanks a lot for all help
-Tom-
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