Eventually, yesterday evening I had time to get the remaining gadgets operational.
The Wacom tablet already worked like a charm.
Monitor calibration showed that my visual calibration (Adobe Gamme) was not so way off - the display is a tad darker now.
But the printer .....
The first color prints were a catastrophe, which was my fault - double profiling, wrong gamma setting, etc.
Finally, I got more or less decent results. The only problem to solve is that the color prints are slightly too dark (about half to one stop).
I downloaded the latest drivers and profiles, but ran out of paper so I could not test whether this helps or not.
I cannot imagine that something is wrong with the monitor profile because on my Canon i950 the prints looked perfect except for the colors being a bit too vibrant.
Dark prints in R800/1800 or even the 2400 have been reported very often in various fora but so far noone has come up with a proper solution (updated drivers helped in a few cases).
I have not much experience with custom profiles, but as far as I know they will effect only the color accuracy. Does anybody know if such profiles (e.g. made with profile prism, etc.) will also correct dark output, at least to some extent?
B/Ws come out great, BTW.
The Wacom tablet already worked like a charm.
Monitor calibration showed that my visual calibration (Adobe Gamme) was not so way off - the display is a tad darker now.
But the printer .....
The first color prints were a catastrophe, which was my fault - double profiling, wrong gamma setting, etc.
Finally, I got more or less decent results. The only problem to solve is that the color prints are slightly too dark (about half to one stop).
I downloaded the latest drivers and profiles, but ran out of paper so I could not test whether this helps or not.
I cannot imagine that something is wrong with the monitor profile because on my Canon i950 the prints looked perfect except for the colors being a bit too vibrant.
Dark prints in R800/1800 or even the 2400 have been reported very often in various fora but so far noone has come up with a proper solution (updated drivers helped in a few cases).
I have not much experience with custom profiles, but as far as I know they will effect only the color accuracy. Does anybody know if such profiles (e.g. made with profile prism, etc.) will also correct dark output, at least to some extent?
B/Ws come out great, BTW.