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Old 07-08-2009   #12 (permalink)
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Default Re: Cannon Pro9500 images darker than monitor

Do not forget that an monitor emits light, while paper reflects light. That means that either you might have your monitor to brightly callibrated, or you are viewing your prints under bad lightning.
An advice that works most of the time is to look at the prints nearby an window as the natural sun light is an good bright source with quite good white-balance to check your prints in.

Also, you need to decide what white point you wish to have in your callibration. I use 5000k (reason is that that is the defacto standard for repros and printing plants and they are our customers) which gives a little bit more reddish look. Most home users and photographers like to use 6500k, but i think that gives me to much blue, specially as most of my prints are used indoors under artificiall light (also an reason for using 5000k).
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