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Hi folks,
I'm wondering if anyone can help me. I use a Canon ip4500 printer, and I am getting under exposed and lacking in contrast prints. My camera is a Nikon D90 which under normal circumstances exposes well, and when I load the images onto my laptop, and on to my PC, which has the printer attached to it, the images are "normal" . It's when I print however that I get the above problem. I have to over expose and up the contrast on the screen to get a satisfactory print, and then go back in and re-set the image on the screen to make it watchable, which is a bit of a pain as I am sure you will agree. I cannot find any information in the trouble shooting manual about this specific problem. Any ideas?
 
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I think it comes down to calibrating your computer screen with the printer.
Tbh i have same issue with a canon pixma 9000
i basically do what you do and increase the luminosity of the image slightly for printing.
i think you can buy devices to help balance the two up but at a price of course!!
Don't forget no matter what calibration one does, the image on the screen is digital inpixels whereas the image on the paper is physical ink and papaer ie, analogue ...i'm sure this is the primary reason why probs like this occure
 
Is your monitor calibrated? I had the same problem until i calibrated mine and used the colour profile setting. Im using an ip4200.
 
Thanks guys,
I had seen something on here before about calibrating, but I didn't know how it worked, does it allow you to get the same image on the print as the one you see on the screen?
I seem to remember someone loaning out an item to members for which there was a long queue, do you think it was for this?
Cheers,
Ken
 
madmardle said:
does it allow you to get the same image on the print as the one you see on the screen?
Ken
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from what i understand yes but i have never used any calibration devices so cannot comment on how good or not good they are in reality
 
madmardle said:
Hi folks,
I'm wondering if anyone can help me. I use a Canon ip4500 printer, and I am getting under exposed and lacking in contrast prints. My camera is a Nikon D90 ... Any ideas?
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I would have thought the problem is obvious .... Canon and Nikon are incompatible systems :D

I'll get my coat :wave:
 
you might also want to look at the quality of paper. i bought a load of cheapo 6x4 stuff, thinking i can use it to 'practice'... but the image quality, saturation, exposure is all pants so it defeats the object totally :thumbs:
 
The main problem is that like many monitors it is really far to bright when work needs printing. It needs the brightness turning down. But it's not only the brightness that needs addressing it's also contrast. The eye is very accommodating and bright , contrasty screens it can in general handle, unfortunately printers can't.

Now decreasing he brightness manually is one way of doing it. On my Mac I have the brightness turn down to around 50%, but then I let the calibration software do its job as well ,to give me a screen I can work with. Now calibration tools don't come cheap, so unless you can afford one you do need to find a way round this problem.

Probably the easiest way is to leave the monitor brightness as it is and add some brightness to the image at the printing stage. This is a bit trial and error but once you find how much to add you can simply do this each time you print an image.
 
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