Printing Your Photos At Home With The BenQ SW272U

In this video I explain how you can print your photos at home (or in a photo lab) with a calibrated workflow. This workflow can be used for everyone, but I go into specifics with the BenQ SW272U monitor and the new Palette Master Ultimate.
Make sure to check the links in the description below for much more information and technical resources. And feel free to ask any questions in the comments.
Video Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:57 - Photography Monitor : BenQ SW272U
05:07 - Calibration (with Palette Master Ultimate)
10:10 - Paper Proofing
16:27 - Printing
Links:
BenQ SW272U Product pages:
UK: benqurl.biz/46pFdLY
US: benqurl.biz/46CYf1D
AU: benqurl.biz/46Afh0D
Amazon: benqurl.biz/3toxEXr
BenQ SW272U Review by Francesco Gola: www.francescogola.net/review/...
Printing with Epson P900 and BenQ SW321C:
www.albertdros.com/post/print...
Gear used in this video:
BenQ SW272U: benqurl.biz/3toxEXr
X-rite i1Display Pro (new version is now named Calibrate): amzn.to/3sZJurq
Epson P900 Printer: amzn.to/3T9CEua
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[@lwangvt]

Great video! Definitely will watch again when I calibrate my BenQ monitor for the first time soon. Thank you so much!

[@vinashvinisingh]

Thank you once again Albert for another great tutorial! very valuable information.

[@tnhoenen]

Dankjewel Albert voor je prima uitleg in deze video, ik vond het heel leerzaam.👍

[@barrytownsend822]

Brilliant , please keep them coming

[@angkor5]

Nice work. Very informative!

[@dmac5x1]

Very good information, Albert. Thank you and I look forward to your other videos. I just bought an Epson 8550 and your instructions will be very helpful.

[@AlbertDrosPhotography]

awesome!

[@karinwest919]

I am getting ready to do my first print ever and this tutorial was great. Lots of good tips but especially the one about the BenQ software that I was unaware of! Thank you so much!

[@AlbertDrosPhotography]

very welcome! let me know how the print came out :)

[@salvirji]

Nicely explained video mate, was a pleasure watching it 😊🍻

[@AlbertDrosPhotography]

thanks Sal!

[@ahmetanak]

Learning the new things, thank you.

[@sNIKersnOMAd]

my dream monitor!

[@sutv6754]

Very Good. Thank You. Subscribed.

[@sandrobedinobrecht8509]

Hello Albert, a very good video, and nowadays printing yourself is no longer an complicated process but it is all the more enjoyable and you learn a lot about your own photography and what you can do better, It is also the logical conclusion of a holistic process, photography. I print with an Epson SPC 900 up to A2 and on rolls, and have already been able to make many people happy. And every now and then I also sell a picture....the costs are also kept within healthy limits. Printing starts when you take the picture, so correct exposure is very important. Sharpening the image before printing is also important. You have shown the important steps very well in the video. Thank you ....

[@AlbertDrosPhotography]

you are very right! The art of printing is just so much fun!

[@alessandro6401]

Very nice video, Albert! I noticed that you use a Mac, how do you deal with the scaling? I found out that MacOS works best at 110 or 220 PPI, this monitor is 163 PPI, so do you keep the default setting or do you use a scaled resolution? Thanks!

[@thomastuorto9929]

Hope to get a BenQ one day. That calibration device ( I have the i1qisplay Pro also) is now sold by a company called Calibrite. Xrite sold the consumer end of the bizz if I understand it correctly. Xrite kept & still sell the professional series. Thanks for the vid.

[@AlbertDrosPhotography]

I was reading about that yesterday as well!

[@PatriciaDavidsonPhotography]

Great video! I love Benq Monitors. I need to upgrade to 4K. I use the Epson Print software like you.

[@AlbertDrosPhotography]

Awesome

[@antoniofattorini2494]

hi, thank you for the video...doesn't the monitor's PPI of 163 give you resolution problems with your Mac?

[@AlbertDrosPhotography]

No problem at all :)

[@JohnMacLeanPhotography]

14:04 I save a step by going directly from processing my DNG files and moving right into the Print module for my Epson 9900. No need to export a TIF or JPG.

[@g00sti]

Great video Albert! I don't know how much or often you make prints on other than paper, i.e. metal, acrylic, canvas etc., but if you have any insights on how to choose between different print types based on the style of image, that would be an interesting video for me at least. :)

[@AlbertDrosPhotography]

Thank you! A lot of that comes to personal preference actually. But it's a great topic. I might do something with that, thanks!

[@drcerbera5455]

Thank you. For an amateur photographer, would you recommend a BenQ SW over a PD series of you are going to print photos?

[@AlbertDrosPhotography]

yes, the PD series is more aimed at design. SW series have a better color accuracy for AdobeRGB, which is better for photography, doesn't matter if its hobby or professional :)

[@RiesP1976]

Although I don’t do a lot of prints I really like this monitor but is it compatible with the new MBP M3? BenQ website only mentions M1 and M2 …

[@flol3266]

You forgot one really important step, calibrating your printer. It can work with third party icc profiles but it can also go really wrong and that happened for me with Epsons own icc profiles for their premium glossy paper. I struggled for a while to find out in the end, that the icc profiles you can download are trash. So for everyone who takes printing serious and spending thousands of euro for printer and such a monitor and calibration device and all the paper and ink, calibrating your printer is a must. You should really put that step in your workflow if you want to have really good results consistently.

[@jefrilay]

I don't know if you will reply this question or not but here is my problem with my benq monitor SW271c mine have lack of contrast even after calibrate it. For example on my benq monitor when I view a photo and compared to my iphone with the same photo. On Benq everything looks great but after sending it to my iphone with 50% brightness, the shadow is darker siginificantly and more contrast. could you show me parameter on calibrating it using xrite and benq software? Thanks in advance for the reply Albert

[@Ruxandu]

Actually the U in the model name stands for resolution (4K) not for the "uniformity", as the Q model refers to the 2K resolution.

[@mikedeal3101]

I use a BenQ sw2700 monitor. Is it too old to use the ultimate calibration or the soft proofing software?

[@AlbertDrosPhotography]

according to the Benq website, PMU supports: SW240, SW270C, SW271C, SW272U, SW272Q, SW321C . So I guess that's not yours. However, just try it. Might work :D!

[@SantoshKumar-hk2pq]

Hello sir can we use this monitor for video editing plz tell

[@AlbertDrosPhotography]

of course you can :) !

[@nldazuu]

Mooi uitgelegd Albert! Prachtige foto! Komt er nog meer van Japan eerstdaags?

[@AlbertDrosPhotography]

Uiteraard! Maar was eerst heel druk met andere dingen. Maar zoals je ziet in de video wordt er aan de shots gewerkt :D

[@MDanceInc]

question: I have a benQ (PD2720U) monitor as well I use for photo editing...Everyone says you should never turn the brightness up to 100% when editing photos but they never say what it should be....?? Can you Give me some kind of idea what brightness level I should be using...??

[@juanignaciollanaugalde3898]

Hello @MDancelnc. Having the brightness very high deceives you about the real luminosity of the image, appearing that it is much greater, so when you print it it will be dark. I have a newly calibrated BenQ SW272Q and to print on paper the recommended light emitted by the monitor should be between 80 -120 cd/m2. My monitor, being calibrated for 120 cd., has blocked its brightness at 37%. I hope this information will be useful. All the best.

[@AlbertDrosPhotography]

It really depends on the brightness of your room. But in the video you can see I am a little below 50%. And that's normally what I use across monitors: 35-45% brightness

[@dannylaureys1376]

So instead of color correcting on a gray background wouldn't it be better to do the correction on a white background for printing.

[@AlbertDrosPhotography]

this is an interesting point actually. That might help for getting your prints not too dark out of the printer :) I didn't actually think of this, but even though I don't like it (the white is too bright for the eyes), it might indeed help with printing :D!

[@rusluck6014]

Let's make videos more often =)

[@AlbertDrosPhotography]

Doing my best :)

[@pupsik62]

I expect that I can use the the paper color sync from benq. So why explaining it in Lightroom. I am always a little annoyed presuming every photographer uses Adobe.

[@AlbertDrosPhotography]

Eh what do you mean exactly? I Also explained paper color sync and said it only supports a handful of paper. Maybe you didn't watch the whole video?

[@AzamatoTheGreat]

First video in two months and it's an advert.. It seems to be a pattern with photography KZbinrs to just make vids about whatever brand is paying them after they hit a certain amount of subs.

[@AlbertDrosPhotography]

It's a free video to watch and it has (in my opinion) good information in it for everyone. You don't have to watch it if you don't want. I have been making articles about these kinds of things for years and I want to work a bit on my KZbin this year. What's wrong with that?