Todd K
Member
I haven’t seen much discussion on this topic but I’ve been exasperated with printing for some time. I bought a Canon Pro9000 II years ago and could never get a good match of prints to my monitor (a calibrated Dell Ultrasharp 2410 at the time, printing from Aperture), especially with red casts that I could not get rid of. I eventually gave up, knowing that I wasn’t alone in stumbling around in the nightmare that is color management.
I recently took up the challenge again, this time with a BenQ 271 monitor and the same Pro9000II, both carefully calibrated with X-Rite i1Studio. I generated icc printer profiles for 5 different test papers from Red River Papers (very nice and helpful people) and tested both the X-Rite and the RRP in-house profiles for each paper specific to my printer. Despite a lot of tweaking (various monitor brightness settings, rendering intents, multiple papers, etc.) while the prints are greatly improved, I still can’t match the gamut on my monitor, in particular the blues and greens. The BenQ is wide gamut (100% Adobe RGB) but I’m not sure that’s the problem.
So my question is, could I do better if I had a more up-to-date printer? Has anyone seen an improvement in gamut when switching from the Pro9000II to something like the Canon Pro-1000 or Pro-300? Or any other similar printer upgrade? Also, has anyone had success in getting reasonably good matches with their monitor images using a high-quality print lab? I’d greatly appreciate any thoughts this wonderful forum might have.
I recently took up the challenge again, this time with a BenQ 271 monitor and the same Pro9000II, both carefully calibrated with X-Rite i1Studio. I generated icc printer profiles for 5 different test papers from Red River Papers (very nice and helpful people) and tested both the X-Rite and the RRP in-house profiles for each paper specific to my printer. Despite a lot of tweaking (various monitor brightness settings, rendering intents, multiple papers, etc.) while the prints are greatly improved, I still can’t match the gamut on my monitor, in particular the blues and greens. The BenQ is wide gamut (100% Adobe RGB) but I’m not sure that’s the problem.
So my question is, could I do better if I had a more up-to-date printer? Has anyone seen an improvement in gamut when switching from the Pro9000II to something like the Canon Pro-1000 or Pro-300? Or any other similar printer upgrade? Also, has anyone had success in getting reasonably good matches with their monitor images using a high-quality print lab? I’d greatly appreciate any thoughts this wonderful forum might have.