Print colours not matching monitor colours

and finally ...

Also, something is wrong if you soft proof in LR and the image looks brighter. Brightness really shouldn't change much (I typically see zero change in brightness). If anything, you should see a drop in contrast. On the other hand if your contrast ratio and brightness is set properly for your monitor you may see almost no change. Whatever you do, don't get fooled by the pasteboard changing to white

It's very important to soft proof, not only for adjusting contrast (if required), but also to see if any colors are predicted to be out of gamut for the output destination. Out of gamut colors won't look great in the final print and you'll lose detail in those areas.

One last tip: Make certain you set printer resolution to 288 or 360 AND NOT TO 300. When you divide 1440 (R3000 smaller dot per inch number) by the printer resolution the result needs to be an integer to ensure there's no interpolation.

alitech wrote in post #16027285
Don't you have to set your software to do CMYK instead of RGB?

Absolutely not! Don't even go there!!


Maninatree: Any updates?