Printing/colors - help!
Amy
I need help!!
Can anyone give me any insight as to why my beautiful blue skies in my
wonderful designs (from a scanned photo) keep printing purple?
I tried completely editing the area and using a "truer" blue, --
I've tried adjusting my printer settings (Cannon BJC-4300 printer)
[tried all the "color-adjust" settings from "logo" to "match" to
"auto"], I've adjusted the hue, brightness, etc etc.etc......I've
tried changing the formats, I've tried printing the designs out of
both CorelDraw! 8.0 and Corel Photopaint, ----- I'm still getting a
print-out of the beautiful brown/red/orange rocks of the Grand Canyon
(no problems getting those colors just right), yet my lovely clear
blue sky is bright Plum instead of the the deep "true" blue that
appears on my screen!
Please! can anybody help me???
I have to make this presentation very soon and trying to explain how
the Martian atmosphere took up residence over the Grand Canyon (though
an interesting story I am sure) will not interest my client at all.
please...I really need help!
Thanks a million!!
~amy
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artenall
Amy wrote in message <6s01ah$nro$1...@news.eli.net>...
First
From what you are describing, I think you need to adjust your screen
calibaration.
Go to Tools/Options/GLobal/Colour Management
and enable the checkbox against *Calibrate colours for display* if it is not
already enabled.
This will show you as truly as possible on screen what your colours will
look like on your printer, especially the blues. This may make it necessary
to rescan your photo if you have done a lot of messing about with it as you
have stated.
Secondly, is your colour cartridge giving you all 3 colours on a nozzle test
print?
Thirdly, your choice of paper and printer settings can influence the final
result dramatically. Is everything selected properly there?
Hope this helps
John
Amy
I think I am getting alot closer to my answer....
I have managed to establish that the colors in (the sky) my design are
"beyond my printer's profiled color gamut". OK...
so what I need now is help finding my Cannon BJC4300 printer's
color profile...
( I think ) [as in "from disk"?]
I am having a terrible time figuring out where to find this
profile.
can anyone suggest a way that I can find it -- or at least let me know
what kind of file I am searching for?
any help out there?
(the Cannon site is not able help right now - they are in North
Carolina...Hurricane Central right now! - wouldn't ya know it!!)
I got the impression from the help files I printed ("Reproducing
colors accurately") out of Corel that if I can get this profile
plugged into Corel then it may be able adjust my on-screen colors to
as close to the actual printed colors I wil get as possible.
any suggestions on finding these profiles or in getting the colors I
have already in my design to adjust to within the printable gamut of
my Cannon BJC-4300 are desperately needed!!!
Thanks a Million!!
Amy
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artenall wrote in message <6s0t71$nc0$1...@news.wantree.com.au>...
Ceylon Stowell
> I think I am getting alot closer to my answer....
>I have managed to establish that the colors in (the sky) my design are
>"beyond my printer's profiled color gamut". OK...
> so what I need now is help finding my Cannon BJC4300 printer's
>color profile...
The Corel website has color profiles for most of the Canon models.
If they don't have a profile for your printer [they don't] you
can usually start by using a profile from the closest model
printer that uses the same ink cartridges as yours. [Obviously
I dunno if the 4300 uses the 600 cartridges, the 7000 "6 color"
ones, etc.] Perhaps the 4200 and 4550, using the same ink kits.
>I got the impression from the help files I printed ("Reproducing
>colors accurately") out of Corel that if I can get this profile
>plugged into Corel then it may be able adjust my on-screen colors to
>as close to the actual printed colors I wil get as possible.
You can adjust your screen to match your printout. Be warned
that this will change every time you change papers, the lighting
around your screen changes, the lighting you view your prints
at changes, etc. etc.
If I am printing a photo, I usually waste [an expensive,
unfortunately] a sheet and print it, then adjust the screen
itself to give a pretty close match to the printout. If
the color differences aren't too big, this works reasonably
well. If there is a big shift, the difference in gamma of
the screen and a printer makes this a time consuming, expensive
process.
You can use the scanner, screen, standard target technique in
Corel [calibrate your scanner, print the target, scan the
printout], but I haven't had as good luck as just eyeballing
it, YMMV.