Digital or Analog

[jbstitt]

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Both my computer video card and my monitor have digital capability but I have always used analog.The monitor is a Samsung 930B. Great monitor but I can't get it dark enough to match my 2400 printer even with the brightness at 0. Is there any advantage to buying a digital cable and using the system on digital instead of analog? Is it worse?

 

John Stitt

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[andybarton]

Have you calibrated the monitor?

[jbstitt]

Andy,

 

Yes I have calibrated the monitor with SoiderPro2 and can get the colors right on but as I said the monitor remains brighter than the prints. I have to adjust the brightness on the advanced options to make the prints match what I see. I read a review of this monitor (after I bought it) and they had the same comment. Very bright and hard to get dark enough to match printing at standard settings. If anyone has found any work around other than adjusting the printer I sure would appreciate knowing. This guessing is using lots of ink and paper. I thought there might be some advantage to making the monitor digital instead on analog and thus this thread.

 

John

[jrc]

This may be profoundly stupid, but 3M has anti-glare filters for monitors that are supposed to be color-neutral, but that I believe will somewhat reduce the apparent brightness.

It'd be a cheap and quick solution if it works for you.

 

http://cms.3m.com/cms/US/en/2-22/FiiulFT/view.jhtml

 

 

JC

[Tim B]

John,

 

For a long time I had this problem with my Epson R800. Colour was fine, but darker prints than screen. I was using the standard Epson paper profiles that are installed with the printer driver software. The only way I could get anything close was to set PSCS2 Print with Preview to use the printer colour management and not PS, and it was still not quite right.

 

I spent ages profiling my monitor, messing about with colour space, image profiles and wasting quantities of ink and paper.

 

Then a while ago when using Ilford Galerie Inkjet paper, which works very well with the R800 I installed the Ilford profiles that I had downloaded ages ago. Wow! Suddenly no problem. I then installed some paper specific profiles I had downloaded from Epson and found that using them also solved the problem. Now, no more worries.

 

Now, I think that the 2400 has a different profile set up with specific profiles for different surfaces, so what happened to me might not be relevant to you, but I have been so overjoyed and relieved at this simple solution to what sounds like the same problem that I thought I would mention it. Are your paper profiles all OK?

 

Hope you get it sorted, I know how frustrating it is.

 

Tim

[jbm]

I use analog to my monitor also. My prints were also darker than what I was seeing on the monitor, so I just tilted the screen until it matched my prints.

 

--Jim

[Guest stnami]

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Set the brightness to about 35-45% and then calibrate

[brucemcl]

I had a similar Samsung monitor and an Epson 2200 printer. I ended up selling the Samsung because of similar problems. One thing you can try as well as the brightness is to get to the individual Red, Green, and Blue controls on the Samsung and turn them down.

[jank]

There should certainly be an advantage not to use ananlog on these basically digital monitors.

If we follow the signal path from the camera or scanner, the signal is then converted to analog, then sent via cable to monitor, then converted to digital again and sent to display.

Thus eliminating this extra step one can eliminate the error caused by these extra two conversions. Analog circuits, no matter how well designed they are, may not match exactly A/D to D/A .

They also tend to drift due tempeature, aging etc.

 

Jan