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I changed to an LCD panel about a year ago. Despite meticulous calibration images printed from that monitor appear too dark unless I use a work around involving arbitrary adjustments to brightness/contrast applied prior to printing. Even then the results are ok but not ideal.
I hooked up a still working calibrated CRT to a second computer and opened images that were processed on the computer that uses an LCD panel. They looked pretty good to me on the CRT.
I made no further adjustments but printed them from the computer connected to the CRT to my networked Epson 1800 printer that is connected to the LCD machine.
The differences between the prints adjusted by eye on the LCD panel but printed from a computer with a CRT are obvious. The images printed from a CRT have the correct brightness and contrast compared to images printed from the computer connected to the LCD panel although all image adjustments were made via the LCD panel.
I would have expected that the images would print identically because judgments with regard to brightness and contrast were made visually on the LCD panel, not altered in any way on the CRT machine. I would have expected the differences had I made adjustments on the CRT because the brightness/contrast of a CRT more closely resembles the reflective properties of glossy printing paper and despite calibration most LCDs are too frigging bright for accurate printing.
How is this?
I hooked up a still working calibrated CRT to a second computer and opened images that were processed on the computer that uses an LCD panel. They looked pretty good to me on the CRT.
I made no further adjustments but printed them from the computer connected to the CRT to my networked Epson 1800 printer that is connected to the LCD machine.
The differences between the prints adjusted by eye on the LCD panel but printed from a computer with a CRT are obvious. The images printed from a CRT have the correct brightness and contrast compared to images printed from the computer connected to the LCD panel although all image adjustments were made via the LCD panel.
I would have expected that the images would print identically because judgments with regard to brightness and contrast were made visually on the LCD panel, not altered in any way on the CRT machine. I would have expected the differences had I made adjustments on the CRT because the brightness/contrast of a CRT more closely resembles the reflective properties of glossy printing paper and despite calibration most LCDs are too frigging bright for accurate printing.
How is this?
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