This has been driving me crazy for weeks now, when I first installed it, great prints. Now everything comes out too dark. I have calibrated, uninstalled, reinstalled, new drivers, I am at my wits end. I have wasted so much ink and paper today it would have been cheaper to buy a new one.
Sounds like you monitor is too bright and your file is actually darker than you are seeing. How did you calibrate your monitor? What luminance value is it set to?
I’ve had this problem for a very long time, but it’s an Epson 2200. When I first got it, prints matched monitor as close as one could possibly ask for. Then all of a sudden, prints were coming out much darker (too dark) with a green tint to them. I’ve never resolved it. When I built a new computer a year and a half ago, I thought a fresh install of everything would resolve the problem. It did not. Exactly the same results. What I have to do, is once I get the prints to look how I want them to on the monitor, I then remove green thru the RGB controls, and brighten it up a lot. Sometimes it works, sometimes I waste a lot of paper. Most of the time, it’s acceptable, and customers never see it.
My monitor is calibrated with a Monaco Optix. I use Epson papers, and the Epson profiles for the papers. I print with Qimage. Dang frustrating problem. I’ve posted more questions in forums and to Epson support with absolutely no resolution. From what I’ve gathered from reading posts on this problem recently, it’s a widespread problem than many have, and in my opinion, not fixable.
One thing I stumbled onto very recently. I shoot sports, and shoot almost 100% jpg sRGB, except for important events, where I will shoot RAW. I recently processed a RAW image in ACR, then finished it up in CS3 in aRGB, saving as a tif. Processing in aRGB was something ACR did, without my noticing. I did not have the printing problems with this image, or at least, not as strong of a problem. First print was a good one.
