Printing Photos

[booth...@hotmail.com]

Hi

Can anyone help....when printing photos on plain paper they come out
fine. But when printing on glossy photo paper 200 299 gms the pics
come out too green, ie brown turns to green etc.

I have tried all sorts of printer settings & colour profiles in
photoshop cs2 but to no avail.

Basically the printer is not printing exactly whats on the monitor. I
have asked the printer not to make adjustments, but this still does
not make any difference.

I am using Photoshop cs2, Epson Stylus photo R200 printer, Windows
Vista sp1, Acer X223w LCD 22inch monitor, & Nvida geeforce 8300gs
graphics card.

Thanks in advance

Marcus

[tmo...@wildblue.net]

On May 12, 7:29 am, "boothmar...@hotmail.com"

1)Calibrate your monitor, makes a difference, hardware calibration is
best.
2) Every paper has a different response to a printer, this is
controlled by profiles, get a profile for your printer / paper
combination
3) Know what paper choice on the printer driver lays down the correct
amount of ink for your paper.
4) Good prints from a cheap printer is always iffy, if you can't find
profiles for your printer, the printer maybe the problem.
5) Other than Epson, Ilford may be the best company to look for paper,
they have a large selection of printers they profile for.

Tom

[ray]

For starters, have you told the printer that you're printing on 'glossy
photo paper'? If it still thinks it's printing on plain paper, that could
explain the difference.

[trouble]

It would help to profile your monitor but if you are using an LCD panel you
will probably find prints are too dark because monitor profiling devices
cannot account for the insane brightness levels of LCD panels. There are
simple ways to compensate for this but it is another level of complexity.
I suspect you are not setting up the printer driver correctly in both CS2
and the Epson driver.
Select "have photoshop manage printing", select relative colorimetric as the
intent and choose the epson glossy profile. In the Epson driver also select
the epson glossy profile and turn off ICM.
This should give you a reasonably accurate print even without monitor
profiling.
If that does not work for you then select have the printer manage color and
set the Epson driver for the correct paper type and whatever other settings
your prefer.

[Neil Ellwood]

My monitor is an LCD one. there is no problem with it as the brightness
level is adjustable. I have never seen one that isn't.

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[rubylene]

Try to check the settings of your printer. Maybe you haven't change the
paper setting from plain to glossy.

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[Bob Larter]

It's normal for inkjet prints to look a bit different on different
media. I'm guessing that you're not setting the driver to the
appropriate media.

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[Bob Larter]

<nods> I'd advise the same.

[Paul Furman]

Bob Larter wrote:
> trouble wrote:
>> It would help to profile your monitor but if you are using an LCD
>> panel you will probably find prints are too dark because monitor
>> profiling devices cannot account for the insane brightness levels of
>> LCD panels. There are simple ways to compensate for this but it is
>> another level of complexity.

I'm open to suggestions (sans calibrating device).

>> I suspect you are not setting up the printer driver correctly in both
>> CS2 and the Epson driver.
>> Select "have photoshop manage printing", select relative colorimetric
>> as the intent and choose the epson glossy profile. In the Epson driver
>> also select the epson glossy profile and turn off ICM.
>> This should give you a reasonably accurate print even without monitor
>> profiling.

Does this know I have an LCD monitor though?

>> If that does not work for you then select have the printer manage
>> color and set the Epson driver for the correct paper type and whatever
>> other settings your prefer.
>
> <nods> I'd advise the same.
>
>

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[Dave W]

On 12 May, 12:29, "boothmar...@hotmail.com" <boothmar...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

I have an old HP840c printer, so no possibility of getting a profile
for it. Also, depending on the cartridge, and whether I've topped it
up with cheap ink, the result of printing grey is very variable,
usually greenish like yours. What I did recently when I wanted to
print from black & white pictures, was to create a test graphic.

The graphic started as neutral grey squares in a square 8x8 array. I
graduated the colour of the columns reducing the blue content in 1%
steps, and the colour of the rows reducing green content in 1% steps.
Now the corner square is grey, and the other squares vary in tint on
the screen.

I then print this, and decide which square looks most neutral, or
matches an original print, when viewed in daylight. I then temporarily
apply the same blue/green correction to the image I want to print.

The darkest areas of the print are produced by the most ink and are
therefore the most tinted, so the corrections you make to the file
have to involve changing the low end of RGB colours, maybe by using
the 'curves' facility.

Dave W

[Bob Larter]

Paul Furman wrote:
> Bob Larter wrote:
>> trouble wrote:
>>> It would help to profile your monitor but if you are using an LCD
>>> panel you will probably find prints are too dark because monitor
>>> profiling devices cannot account for the insane brightness levels of
>>> LCD panels. There are simple ways to compensate for this but it is
>>> another level of complexity.
>
> I'm open to suggestions (sans calibrating device).
>
>
>>> I suspect you are not setting up the printer driver correctly in both
>>> CS2 and the Epson driver.
>>> Select "have photoshop manage printing", select relative colorimetric
>>> as the intent and choose the epson glossy profile. In the Epson
>>> driver also select the epson glossy profile and turn off ICM.
>>> This should give you a reasonably accurate print even without monitor
>>> profiling.
>
> Does this know I have an LCD monitor though?

No. The assumption is that you've made a best effort to setup your
monitor correctly. If it's really not possible for you to calibrate it
properly, at least install the factory ICM file that came with the
monitor (or D/L is from the manufacturers website), & set your monitor
to the factory defaults.