My photo book printed too dark

Hi. I ordered a book via iphoto and the pictures were WAY too dark. Is there a contact person somewhere in iworld that I can call about adjusting the heavy ink?

Apple guarantees satisfaction - see - http://www.apple.com/support/photoservices/returns/
What color profile are the photos - sRGB is the best - many people have reported that using adobe RGB causes very dark prints
In general less editing is best - and using iPhoto is better than PhotoShop or other editing programs -- http://www.apple.com/support/photoservices/preparation_tips/
LN

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Photo book prints too dark

The large hard cover book I ordered through iPhoto came back way to dark and saturated. What happened to ColorSync and should I expect a better print product from Aperture?

Apple guarantees satisfaction - see - http://www.apple.com/support/photoservices/returns/
What color profile are the photos - sRGB is the best - many people have reported that using adobe RGB causes very dark prints
In general less editing is best - and using iPhoto is better than PhotoShop or other editing programs -- http://www.apple.com/support/photoservices/preparation_tips/
LN

Exported Jpeg's when sent to photo lab print too dark

I have had consistent results with exported jpeg images that look fine on my monitor (as raw files)and show in the histogram in lightroom 2.5 as the highlights just starting to clip as printing too dark when sent to a photo lab in SRGB. Is this a fault of my monitor? I have calibrated the monitor, a Dell S2409W, using charts on the website at http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints1A.html but this still happens. Will darkening the Monitor help or will the images still clip at the same point? I have been able to send a second image with the exposure and or brightness boosted a bit and they print brighter, but this is a pain. What is the best way to correct this so that I can see the same image as I get back from the lab?

hello henrykipson,
you said that you want starting an professional laboratory business,i can talking about this because i had a laboratory until some years ago .i hope that you made some artistic study,so it's more easy for you to learn this topic.you must study,an pass an examination for take an artigianal licence that allow you to open this activity ,the licence given you the opportunity to work either for sale photografic material either to shoot and developing,one time that you had pass this examination you must gone to the police autority and inform these of your business (is under police control.because you work with chemical material,and also because you had a reservate people information,and they must given you their assent.)after all you can start to buy a good developer and print machine beyond to have a dark room.for manual print.you must decided if do you want work in black and white or color.You can do both but is better to specialize by one of them ,like you want.
Remember from the digital events many people print his image at home,you must deciding maybe is better to work with a professional photographer,that can given you more work.itsn't easy.you must have a good preparation because ,they are more exigent.The good results depend also from the quality of your works.a good machine,good chemical product,good upkeep,of your laboratory.(in italy this is the procedure,i think also in other country,because is a ticklish question licence.)I hope that this my little explanation are useful to you.Good luck .
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Photos are printing too dark

Hi, I use Aperture 2.1.4 to edit my photos and my imac is running OSX 10.6. I have recently purchased an EPSON Artisan 730 and am not sure what I am doing wrong but my photos are printing darker than they appear on the screen.
The setting in Aperture are
Paper size: 10x15cm
Orientation: landscape
Colorsync profile: PX830 730 Artisan837 730 Epson glossy
Black point compensation not ticked
gamma: 1.0
sharpen amount: 0
sharpen radius: 0
scale to: fill entire page
print resolution: use best dpi ticked
Please can you offer any suggestions or point me in the right direction.
Thanks

Léonie kindly asked me to add to your thread. Other than the links you'll find in the post of mine to which Léonie already linked (I don't sense that you've read them), I can make the strong suggestion that you upgrade Aperture to the current version (and upgrade to 10.6.8 or 10.7.x, too). Apple has been steadily working on color and luminance fidelity (it's a difficult problem), and has made significant changes to the rendering of Images in the OS and in Aperture.
It is odd that you made no changes in the software calibration process. Redo it?
Here are some general considerations to be aware of:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17216135#17216135
And an even shorter summary here:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17539316#17539316
Don't be overly discouraged by the complexity of the topic. With some work you should be able to get reliably close. Whether "close" is close enough is for you to say.
I print (to Epson Printers, but that shouldn't matter) with "Rendering Intent" set to "Perceptual", and "Black Point compensation" checked. The second is perhaps impossible to ascertain, but the first should change the luminance distribution visibly (depends on the photo). These, however, are refinements. You have to get "close" first.
Here is the first thing to check after confirming that your printer is working properly (sorry for quoting myself):
The quick answer -- now that you've got this far -- is set your monitor brightness to something that appears gray rather than light. This is probably close to the middle of the available range, and two or three steps lower than you might chose for comfortable viewing. Implicit in that is that what is best for editing photos is often different from what is best for doing other work on a computer.
Post back with questions.

Photo is printing too dark

I am printing from Lightroom 4 to to an Epson Artisan 1430. I'm using a generic glossy paper. I have the print settings set to this, along with best photo and have the print management in Lightroom set to printer. I have tried printing 3 images now from a batch of photos. They all appear under exposed. I'm printing a 6x6 photo. When I print it as a 2x2 the exposure is better. I then chose another photo that was shot in .raw format in a much higher quality just to see if it was the photo set before or the possibly a setting. The single photo printed out de-saturated which leads me to believe I'm missing a setting somewhere. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what to look for?
Thanks.

This is not a known issue with any Adobe products.
But Epson has had a lot of problems with their drivers in MacOS 10.9.

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Acrobat XI is printing too dark to our machines. Acrobat 7 prints just fine, same file, same machine.
Anyone else having this issue? It's VERY frustrating and short of adjusting EVERY photo in EVERY
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C309g-m printer, prints too dark

My printer always prints too dark.
The prints never come out like they look on the screen. I can manually change the lightness of the photo to compensate, but it would be nice if there were settings I could change in the printer instead.
Any advice would be nice..thanks!

What paper quality and paper type settings are you using? If you are printing on plain paper but have selected a photo paper then the result will be oversaturated. Also if your application gives the choice of RGB or CMYK then choose RGB. (The printer uses CMYK inks, but the driver is expecting RGB data.)
What operating system? Your driver may have settings for Advanced Color Control. In the Windows 7 dr.iver this would be found in Printing Preferences, Color, More Printing Options. You can change the brightness and saturation as shown in the sliders here:
Bob Headrick, HP Expert
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Why are the photos i print much darker than the monitor image?

why are the photos i print much darker than the monitor image?

Please read this post then provide some details. What printer model? What operating system? What program are you printing from?
Some programs such as Photoshop give the option to print to CMYK or sRGB color spaces. Even though the printer uses CMYK inks the driver is expecting sRGB data. If CMYK is selected the prints will be much too dark.
Another thing to check is the media type. If you are printing on plain paper and have seelcted Photo paper the prints have too much ink.
Bob Headrick, HP Expert
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Hello, I have a Windows 7 Pc where Lightroom 5 is on installed. When I open a photo using " verkenner" I see a good coloured photo. When I open a photo via Lightroom 5, the photo will be too dark. This gives difficluties during shaping the photograph. C

Hello,
I have a Windows 7 Pc where Lightroom 5 is on installed.
When I open a photo using " verkenner" I see a good coloured photo.
When I open a photo via Lightroom 5, the photo will be too dark. This gives difficulties during shaping the photograph. Can someone help me to solve this problem?
Kind Regards,
Marianne

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Images appear fine in Photoshop cs6 and cc, but print too dark, and also show too dark in Windows picture viewer. How can I correct this? Is this a Photoshop setting issue or what?

Images appear fine in Photoshop cs6 and cc, but print too dark, and also show too dark in Windows picture viewer. How can I correct this? Is this a Photoshop setting issue or what?

Ok, look at your files in Photoshop. What is the profile assigned to them? You can find this out by going to the Status bar at the bottom, clicking on the right-pointing triangle and choosing document Profile from the list.
Then in Windows, go to your Control Panel > Color Management and add sRGB (if it isn't there) and select it as your default profile.
I hope that will work.

I had ordered a photo book print two years back. I want to reorder the same book again now. However, I have lost the album project in iphoto. Is there any way to see my print order history and reorder the same book for print ?

I had ordered a photo book print two years back. I want to reorder the same book again now. However, I have lost the album project/photos from iphoto.
Is there any way to see my print order history and reorder the same book for print ?

No. Apple only keeps the pdf file for a book for 30 days. Without the library and book project you won't be able to reorder the same book.
Even though the horse is out of the barn the following tutorial might be of help for future books, i.e. create a new library for each book): iP08 - Archiving an iPhoto Book for Editing and/or Ordering at a Later Date
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Epson prints too dark from LR on color managed MacBook Pro?

Hi all,
I have a newish MacBook Pro, calibrated with Spyder2, and printing to an Epson 2200. The prints are too dark, and don't really come close to matching the screen in LR. I've brought the images into PS2 for soft proofing, but the prints are still far too dark. It's not just out of LR, but DPP as well. I found this topic:
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bc44027/28
Tthat seems to describe my problem, but it seems to be Adobe-specific. Doug doesn't say if he's tried printing from other apps. I use Epson's custom profiles, which actually seem to be worse than the standard profiles that come with the driver.
A new twist seems to be that profiled jpg images with sRGB profiles exported from LR also print too dark when I had them sent out for printing, which leads me to think that my screen is not profiled correctly, or there's some weird flaw in the Mac's color management engine that skews everything.
My first question: When I profile my screen using Spyder2, I have the brightness set at maximum. Should I bring it down, and if so, how far? The Spyder2 help says use "Factory Defaults", but the MBP ships with brightness set on auto-adjust based on ambient light levels.
My second question: Are there others who have this issue? Have any of you resolved them successfully, and if so, how?
Thanks!
Timmy

Time for a reality/sanity check for those who complain that "the "prints are too dark from my Epson printer"!
If you will just reduce your monitor's white-point luminance to the range of 80-90 cd/m2 when you edit your images, it's almost certain that the problem will be solved (assuming you're not making some other error in color management setup). Many people conclude that their problem must be a generic failure or defect of Epson printers (i.e., compared to HP, etc)-- or that the Epson paper profiles are defective. Well, perhaps there's some element of truth to that conclusion--to the extent that Epson printers have evidently been designed with typical professional editing environments in mind (i.e., the low brightness levels to which "serious" printers adjust their monitors and ambient lighting). Why would they do that: Well, who wants to spend many hours each day looking at the glare of a 200 cd/m2 monitor screen (and the reflections from a brighly lighted room)?
So, for getting "monitor-matching" prints from printers such as the SP 2200, you simply need to work (edit) with your images in a more-or-less "dimly lit" room using a monitor that is properly adjusted for such a low-light environment--(i.e., the screen luminance not higher than 90-100 cd/m2). Of course even with such a reduced screen luminance, the light used for print-viewing must be sufficiently bright(**)
It's possible that your monitor cannot be adjusted to the necessary (low) luminance level--or that you haven't any means to measure the luminance level. Those are correctable hardware issues, although may require $$.
(**)please note that a fairly bright viewing light is needed for prints (made as suggested above) to appear to be a reasonably close "match" to the monitor image.
Phil

Installed Yosemite and iPhoto 9.6. A lot of my photos are much too dark now and the colour is not right. Any fix available? I did a backup prior to the new installs.

Installed Yosemite and iPhoto 9.6. A lot of my photos are now too dark and the colour is way off from the originals. Any suggestions to correct this mess. I did a backup prior to installing Yosemite and iPhoto 9.6.

Check the monitor settings in the System/Displays/Color preference pane. You may have to change the color profile used or calibrate the monitor.
Also check the System/Accessibility preference pane to see if the Increase contrast checkbox is checked. If it is check it and see if there's any improvement.

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