printing from lightroom looks TERRIBLE. Need an alternative

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Hi all, i've printed off some shots from lightroom and they look really bad. Bleached out whites and too dark blacks. Soft and no definition.


Thought it might be the printer / paper / ink whatever but i've printed the same picture from the rubbish canon print software and it looks fine.

However, the canon software doesn't give me a 6x4 option which i really need. So is there some other way i could get this done with 2 6x4 prints on each page? Or am i missing something obvious in lightroom?
 
thanks. I've tried that method and came across 3 canon mg8200 profiles which were on my list. Tried them but prints look too red and just very wrong. Do i need to download another profile to install in the colorsync/profiles folder?
 
You can do it from Preview.

Highlight your two images, open them in preview then go to print. In the print options where it says 'Preview' click and select 'Layout' form the drop down menu, then choose '2 pages er sheet'
 
There is obviously an issue in calibration in what you are seeing on your screen and what your printers ICC profiles are set at.

When you say your monitor is calibrated, you do mean by using a spyder or similar?
 
englishpremier said:
You can do it from Preview.

Highlight your two images, open them in preview then go to print. In the print options where it says 'Preview' click and select 'Layout' form the drop down menu, then choose '2 pages er sheet'
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Unfortunately this doesn't give an option to specify 6x4inch which is what i need..

Edit: i've managed to print two six by fours on a sheet using iphoto and i'm satisfied with the results. They look ok for what I need them for so it'll do for now. But I will certainly attempt to figure out this lightroom issue...hopefully without wasting a load of ink!
 
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Not sure if it'll help but I had the same issue the first time I printed after calibrating using my Colourmunki, what I found is even if you use auto with the ambient light sensor the screens brightness wasn't correctly adjusting and as a result the prints weren't coming out right. The solution for me was to go advanced and manually set it to profile around 150cd/m2, might be worth trying a manual override and recalibrating (remember if your on a Mac to switch to default delete the old one then reboot first otherwise you may have issues applying the new profile).

The other thing you need to do is make sure you proof on the right colour background, Lightroom has a really good proofing mode if you press SHIFT+N which I usually proof on a white background which will easily highlights most issues.
 
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