Try Costco instead of Sams Club. I use no calibration devices/software. My prints come out so close to my monitor that I'm a happy camper. Keep your output in sRGB whichg is what the printers use. Make good use of the histogram when you're editing, stay within the lines. I doubt that my redo average is over 1-2% and then it's usually my fault. Find some interesting images in my galleries and take a look, what you see is what you get from Costco. Make sure you tell Costco to turn off the auto correct:
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John Ford
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From: "Benjamin DeHaven " < benjamindehaven @ dajdesignsphotography .com>
To: " artshow photo" < artshow _photo@ yahoogroups .com>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 4:58:42 PM
Subject: [ artshow _photo] Printing Prints
In an effort to get more predictable and repeatable prints I recently purchased a xrite monitor calibrator. I thought this would be a cure all for the problems matching prints to monitor, but this was not to be. It simply opened my eyes to the depth of the problem.
Right now for most of our prints we use Sam's Club (don't judge... money is tight...). I have been playing around with Bay Photo but I just do not see a difference in print quality. So I suppose I have two questions to pose.
1) What temperature do you set your monitors to in order to edit your prints? I suppose that feeds into how you deliver your prints to the customer, are they optimized for daylight, tungsten light, other light?
2) For those that have their prints done for them by an outside print shop (of any so called quality or professionalism), do you have to re-edit your pictures from the web for a print version if your monitor is calibrated? From my latest batch of Sam's prints (also the first since I calibrated my monitor) they had an abundance of orange that I just cannot duplicate by tweaking gamma or white point. I really am at a lose here. And Sams will not provide any ICC profiles so I really don't even know where to start besides resubmitting my prints and hoping for better results. Then again, if the same pictures come out looking different (yes, I clicked off the "autocorrect" feature) then I have even bigger problems...
Any thoughts or opinions at all would be greatly appreciated. I would do my own printing but the upfront costs are simply too prohibitive. Right now I am struggling to find money for $200 in new inventory AND $249 for an EZ-Up Canopy with walls. I used to think taking the photos was the hard part...
Thanks to all.
Benjamin
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