Lightroom does this using something called an ICC Profile. Soft proofing simulates how your print will look once printing but displays this on your computer screen. This is another area that causes lots of confusion and problems. Be sure your image is large enough or reduce the size of the print you are making. Whilst Lightroom will automatically resize images that are too small when you print them, there are limits to what it can achieve. If an image doesn’t have sufficient resolution to achieve the chosen print size, the print quality will be poor. The images you print need to be large enough for the size of print you are making. Personally I use Fotospeed papers for these reasons but also because they provide a free printer profiling service. Most importantly, you also need a printer profile that matches your paper selection and printer combination. You need to select a quality printing paper with a surface that suits the image you’re printing. Be sure that you calibrate your monitor before printing. This can easily happen if your monitor isn’t correctly calibrated. Imagine thinking your images appear good on your monitor but really, they have too much contrast and saturation. This is one of the most common causes of poor printing, especially amongst those who are new to printing in Lightroom. If your monitor isn’t correctly calibrated, you won’t know if your prints are accurate or not. Let’s look at why each of these is important when printing from Lightroom. The key elements of the printing ecosystem are: If just one of these elements isn’t working correctly you will experience problems when making prints. I call it an ecosystem because there are a lot of elements that must work together to deliver high quality prints. To learn how to print from Lightroom and achieve consistently good results, you must take control of your “printing ecosystem”. Let’s start with an outline of the process when printing from Lightroom.
This tutorial will help you understand what these are and how they fit together when printing from Lightroom. But even then, there are a lot of things that can go wrong and that you need to consider. If you want to achieve consistently high-quality prints, Lightroom is an excellent tool. Printing can be frustrating but equally, extremely rewarding when you get it right.
In this tutorial, we look at how to print from Lightroom.
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