cathm

[Damien Symonds]

@cathm, talk to me about your calibration problems.  In what way does your screen not match your prints?

[Damien Symonds]

@cathm, please report in!

[cathm]

I tried bay photo and WHCC and they both came out darker than my monitor color. I use iMac and xrite to calibrate it. 

 

Thanks!

cathy

[Damien Symonds]

That means your monitor is too bright. Are you following the calibration instructions on my site?

[Damien Symonds]

https://www.damiensymonds.net/calibration.html

[Damien Symonds]

How are you going with this, @cathm?

[cathm]

Yes, I did! I sent you the result of it. 

[Damien Symonds]

And I deleted it.  Email is not the place for these discussions.

[cathm]

Got it, I simply replied back to the email, but I guess I had to click on "Go to this post" to reply.  Now, I know!

I will adjust my monitor brightness after I receive the test prints that I just submit.  Thanks!  

[Damien Symonds]

Didn't you already have prints?

[Damien Symonds]

Have they arrived yet?

[cathm]

I had one from one lab and I ordered the test prints, which haven't arrived yet, from another lab.

Is it a bad idea to use two different labs for different products? 

Edited December 24, 2018 by cathm

[Damien Symonds]

It certainly does add complications, but lots of people do it.

[cathm]

Hi Damien! My prints are less saturated than my monitor... How do I adjust this?

[Damien Symonds]

Hi Cathy, thanks for reporting in.

Can you post the photos here for me to see?  Upload the exact jpeg files that you sent to the lab.

[cathm]

I will tomorrow morning when the room is brighter, thanks!

 

[Damien Symonds]

What?  No, upload the same digital files that you sent to the lab.  Unless you have solar-powered internet, the brightness of your room has nothing to do with it.

[cathm]

Oh, I was referring to the prints that I received.

Here are the files that I submitted.

[Damien Symonds]

Oh gee, is that all you got?  There's no variety there.  There are a heap of colour of the spectrum that aren't represented.

[cathm]

I also have this one 

You are right!  I should have submitted the images with more colors!!!

[Damien Symonds]

Is the Christmas one printed exactly the same way as the others?  Same lab, same paper?

[cathm]

Yes, same lab, same paper. This image color matches my monitor color, except for the green and black colors are slightly darker on the print. (but it's good enough and better than the newborn test prints.

 

[Damien Symonds]

The red of Santa's suit is ok?

[cathm]

Yes.

[Damien Symonds]

Interesting.

And are you ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY 100% sure that the overall brightness of the prints (not individual colours, overall brightness) is not significantly different from your screen?