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Rossco
Mar 18, 2005
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Hi there

I have looked and I have looked
I have tried and I have tried
I have calibrated and recalibrated
I am running Photoshop 6….I have a Canon S400sp inkjet printer (which I know is nothing flash) but for the life of me everytime I print something from Photoshop it comes out darker than onscreen. I don’t have the same problem with other graphic or even the color in Word.

Are there tutorials on WYSIWYG relating to Photoshop or can someone please point me in some direction.

Thank you
Rossco
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Brian
Mar 18, 2005
Rossco wrote:
Hi there

I have looked and I have looked
I have tried and I have tried
I have calibrated and recalibrated
I am running Photoshop 6….I have a Canon S400sp inkjet printer (which I know is nothing flash) but for the life of me everytime I print something from Photoshop it comes out darker than onscreen. I don’t have the same problem with other graphic or even the color in Word.

Are there tutorials on WYSIWYG relating to Photoshop or can someone please point me in some direction.

Thank you
Rossco
Hi Rossco,

as a starting point, can you tell us "how" you have calibrated so far. Also, do you have Color Management on, if so, what settings?

Brian.
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Hecate
Mar 18, 2005
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 01:48:45 +1100, Brian
wrote:

Rossco wrote:
Hi there

I have looked and I have looked
I have tried and I have tried
I have calibrated and recalibrated
I am running Photoshop 6….I have a Canon S400sp inkjet printer (which I know is nothing flash) but for the life of me everytime I print something from Photoshop it comes out darker than onscreen. I don’t have the same problem with other graphic or even the color in Word.

Are there tutorials on WYSIWYG relating to Photoshop or can someone please point me in some direction.

Thank you
Rossco
Hi Rossco,

as a starting point, can you tell us "how" you have calibrated so far. Also, do you have Color Management on, if so, what settings?
And are you using colour management in PS, on the printer, or both…

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birdman
Mar 19, 2005
In my experience Canon’s color management protocols are complex and are not as reliable as Epson for trying to achieve WYSIWYG color managed printing. In truth there is no WYSIWYG but color management should get you near to spitting range on the first try. Paper surface, ambient light and the user’s own eyesight are major variables.
Color management does not eliminate trial and error to get the best possible result.
When I follow Canon’s protocols for color managed printing with my i9x series printer the best I can achieve, using their "intents" mode (this comes from a 4 page e-mail I received from Canon technical support) is usually a print that lacks saturation, contrast and is lighter than the monitor image.
Generally I get better results with my Canon printer if I defer to printer color management and guesstimate the Canon presets.
In my experience Canon makes great hardware but across the whole range of its product line has significant software problems. For example the late Canon 4000 film scanner never had Canon drivers that could deliver what the scanner was capable of producing and the new D20 required a firmware upgrade shortly after launch.

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