Canon ip4950 - prints too dark

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  I have the same setup as you, perhaps with the exception of the osX version (10.5.7).

  The impressions of my B9180 are thin and assorted in color managed LR and printer managed.

  Wheter that the printer is set up by default or not never made no difference.

  My printer driver version is 2.3.3

  However, I have the same problem with another printer and LR.

  The fact that people with the same configuration and drivers get different results only confirm my idea that there is a bug / flag in LR who gets together and then all your prints for a certain printer is screwed up.

  I am rather disappointed that Adobe has not corrected this and seems even to the same bug in CS4.

  I won't pay for LR or CS4 until I have confirmation that this bug is gone (if I were to upgrade to CS4 and get the same problem, I would not be able to print over all)

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  In CS5 I get printed pictures coming out too dark and with altered color. Regardless of evidence or settings paper settings that I use, they are always the same. I does not always seem to have this problem, but the impression that I am trying to print today is like it no matter what I do. What I am doing wrong?

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  Benjamin

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  Hello

  Using LR 5.7

  I import images in RAW and convert to DNG.

  hen I export in a JPG and print them, the impressions are very good.

  When I print from the Lightroom print Module, impressions come out too dark with a significant loss of detail in the shadows.

  Adobe...  This is a major problem since version LR 1...  It's high time you fixed!  I wasted tens of sheets of paper because of this problem!

  My screen is just a 24 "calibrated monitor IPS ASUS.

  Windows 7, 64 bit.

  Thank you very much

  Kind rgds

  Rob

  In the print module, under Print Job, print setting, brightness level of contrast and of + 30 to + 15 (these settings work with my printer). Do a test print. If necessary, change the settings. Repeat the test. Once you have arrived at the right settings for your printer, you don't need to worry about setting the parameters for each image.

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  Hi, I know this has been discussed before, but I have not found a solution to my problem in the existing threads. Probably missing me something obvious, and perhaps someone here can point out he me.

  I recently updated from CS3 to CS5. In the two editions of photoshop I followed the recipe of Eric Chan to set up the print workflow: http://people.csail.mit.edu/ericchan/dp/Epson3800/printworkflow.html. In CS3, everything works as expected, i.e. Printing corresponds to the test. Print the image even from the same computer/monitor in CS5 product which is much darker than the softproof printing or printing from CS3.

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  Thank you!

  Martin

  > I printed the wacked out of CS3 and CS5 image. In CS3, everything looks good, i.e. the test corresponds to printing. In CS5 the test seems identical to CS3, but printing is dark.

  This is useful information, a kind of conversion took place or the footprints would be blue

  immediately I notice you're using different printer profiles in photoshop CS3 and CS5 print dialog (the text in your screenshot is too blurred to read)

  I have no way of knowing if you have used the same profile in Proofing

  But if photoshop softproof does not match the impression that something is happening, the question is: what?