Elements 5 printing too dark

I’m no expert but it sounds like you’ve got a colour management issue.

Elements is a colour managed application, maybe the other’s you are using aren’t. You should calibrate your monitor using Adobe Gamma if you haven’t got access to a colorimeter device, (I believe its on the disk with PSE 5), enable full colour management in Elements, and carefully set the printer options to use the printer profile which it should have come with and disable any other adjustments or "enhancements" the printer driver offers. Beware that the print preview screen is NOT colour managed so don’t make judgements from that, use the editor image instead.

Another issue could be limited tonal range of your printer in other words it may be, like mine that it can’t properly differentiate between the very darkest shades, reproducing them as pure black rather than greys. You can do a test print to establish how it copes with tones of grey and adjust the output using the levels control to compensate on photos with a lot of dark areas in them.

I hope this helps a little.

Andrew Bealing

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I’ve run into problems printing from Adobe Photoshop Elements 5. Pics printed from the editor are way too dark. The same images sent to the printer through another app (ie: Snapfire) look fine. Anyone else encountered this problem? Solution??

Andrew Bealing schreef:

I’m no expert but it sounds like you’ve got a colour management issue.
Elements is a colour managed application, maybe the other’s you are using aren’t. You should calibrate your monitor using Adobe Gamma if you haven’t got access to a colorimeter device, (I believe its on the disk with PSE 5), enable full colour management in Elements, and carefully set the printer options to use the printer profile which it should have come with and disable any other adjustments or "enhancements" the printer driver offers. Beware that the print preview screen is NOT colour managed so don’t make judgements from that, use the editor image instead.

Another issue could be limited tonal range of your printer in other words it may be, like mine that it can’t properly differentiate between the very darkest shades, reproducing them as pure black rather than greys. You can do a test print to establish how it copes with tones of grey and adjust the output using the levels control to compensate on photos with a lot of dark areas in them.

I hope this helps a little.

Andrew Bealing

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I’ve run into problems printing from Adobe Photoshop Elements 5. Pics printed from the editor are way too dark. The same images sent to the printer through another app (ie: Snapfire) look fine. Anyone else encountered this problem? Solution??

I’ve read your comments on printing from within Elements 5. Is also my problem.

In PS CS2 there is a posibility to choose :
View => Proof Setup => Custom.
Here I choose for the photopaper ( => "Device to Simulate" ) I’m using in my printer.
Then I make all the enhancements to my photo and after printing it looks all the same as on my monitor. GREAT.

But in Elements 5.0 I have troubles with this !!!
Can anyone help me with a good workaround to come to descent printed photos ?

-=Rob

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Andrew Bealing schreef:

I’m no expert but it sounds like you’ve got a colour management issue.
Elements is a colour managed application, maybe the other’s you are using aren’t. You should calibrate your monitor using Adobe Gamma if you haven’t got access to a colorimeter device, (I believe its on the disk with PSE 5), enable full colour management in Elements, and carefully set the printer options to use the printer profile which it should have come with and disable any other adjustments or "enhancements" the printer driver offers. Beware that the print preview screen is NOT colour managed so don’t make judgements from that, use the editor image instead.
Another issue could be limited tonal range of your printer in other words it may be, like mine that it can’t properly differentiate between the very darkest shades, reproducing them as pure black rather than greys. You can do a test print to establish how it copes with tones of grey and adjust the output using the levels control to compensate on photos with a lot of dark areas in them.

I hope this helps a little.

Andrew Bealing

wrote in message

I’ve run into problems printing from Adobe Photoshop Elements 5. Pics printed from the editor are way too dark. The same images sent to the printer through another app (ie: Snapfire) look fine. Anyone else encountered this problem? Solution??

I’ve read your comments on printing from within Elements 5. Is also my problem.

In PS CS2 there is a posibility to choose :
View => Proof Setup => Custom.
Here I choose for the photopaper ( => "Device to Simulate" ) I’m using in my printer.
Then I make all the enhancements to my photo and after printing it looks all the same as on my monitor. GREAT.

But in Elements 5.0 I have troubles with this !!!
Can anyone help me with a good workaround to come to descent printed photos ?

-=Rob

Rob, did my suggestion make sense to you? I haven’t used Photoshop, only Elements but had the same problem until I did what I set out in my reply. I can try and take you through it stage by stage if you wish.

Andrew