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I've developed a new screen-print mismatch problem. (Equipment I'm using is an Epson R1900, HP LP2275W & Dell 2209WA monitors, Spyder 4 Pro calibration, Windows 7. Printing from LR5.) What I'm seeing looks like a white balance difference, with the prints being considerably warmer and perhaps a little tint shift toward magenta.
Here's the scenario: I haven't been printing much for the last few months - the last time I did a lot of printing was last April, with just occasional prints since then, and nothing for the last 6 weeks or so. The thing that's new since last summer is the Spyder 4, which I upgraded from Spyder 3 to allow me to calibrate both monitors (usually used just the Dell before that). However, the thing that's got me thinking it's not a calibration problem is that I pulled up a couple of older files that had no recent color adjustments, made a print, and compared them to prints from last spring and I still see the difference. Is it possible that my inks are bad? Most of the cartridges were probably installed during my printing project last April, which puts them beyond the recommended life of 6 months from installation, but I think I've printed with cartridges that old before.
What I've done: I did a head cleaning before printing and the nozzle check looked fine. I've recalibrated the monitors with several variations of brightness, white point, etc, with same results. I checked to make sure I was using the correct profiles, and that profile/paper info was consistent between LR and printer driver.
Any ideas??
Thanks!
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