Printing looks like oil paint.........

showtime

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Jul 13, 2002, 9:29:36 PM7/13/02

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Next dilemma.......I tried printing a few photos on plain paper a week ago &
they came out........well.......cheezy. Not bad for plain paper, but
noisy/pixely.

Sooo...I brought home some glossy paper from work (not necessarily photo but
nice stuff). I tried to print on it,(using my Canon printer's settings for
glossy paper, highest quality etc. etc.) but the pics come out looking
somewhere between a regular photo and an oil painting. (Heck, if I wanted
oil painting, I'd have selected that effect...LOL) Anybody got an idea what
I'm doing wrong?? When I have my pics developed, they come out fine.
(Using Canon A40 cam...((pics @ 1600 x 1200 superfine))....and Canon S300
printer set at highest quality photo, etc. etc.) TIA!!!

Tom

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Jul 13, 2002, 9:33:52 PM7/13/02

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"showtime" <rae...@prodigy.net> wrote in message
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Yeah, I know what's wrong.

Get some photo paper and quit feeding your printer crap and expecting
photographs to miraculously appear.

Tom

Mike

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Jul 13, 2002, 9:44:55 PM7/13/02

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Try buying some of Canons' paper. Just because it's glossy doesn't mean it
will work well in your printer. My Epson produces terrific prints on Epson
glossy photo paper, but prints that look terrible on Kodak.

Mike

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Jul 13, 2002, 9:51:29 PM7/13/02

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I'll pick some up & see how it does. Thanks Mike.

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Rudy Smith

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Jul 14, 2002, 3:43:44 AM7/14/02

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You didnt say what kind of paper your using? Get your self some Epson
premium glossy and see if its better. You want good pics you need to use
good paper..........

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Kevin McMurtrie

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Jul 14, 2002, 4:20:02 AM7/14/02

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In article <4u4Y8.713$Mj7.14...@newssvr16.news.prodigy.com>,
"showtime" <rae...@prodigy.net> wrote:

It has to be paper made for inkjet printers or the ink pools on the
surface.

Tone

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Jul 14, 2002, 11:21:10 AM7/14/02

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You might want to check the resolution from within your graphics editor.
Usually the editor will assume it's 72 dpi and print accordingly, change the
setting to somewhere between 200 and 300 and try printing again.

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John Sheehy

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Jul 14, 2002, 3:01:57 PM7/14/02

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In message <4u4Y8.713$Mj7.14...@newssvr16.news.prodigy.com>,
"showtime" <rae...@prodigy.net> wrote:

I don't know how similar your s300 is to my s9000, but with many glossy
papers I have to set the paper type to plain, the quality to custom and
then highest, with diffusion, to get decent results. Otherwise the ink
beads up in dark areas, and the print is greenish.
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Jul 14, 2002, 4:11:10 PM7/14/02

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Ya, I don't know details about any of the current photo printers (or photo
'qualified') just soooo many electronics to keep track of......but......I
think I'll look for Canon-specific paper so that the software will optimize
for that particular paper! Thanks!

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