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Somebody please help me. This is driving me CRAZY..!!
Here’s the story:
For testing purposes, I painted 4 separate stripes: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black, onto a blank Photoshop CMYK file.
I printed the file with a HP Laserjet 2550 Color printer, and the colors came out **distorted**. (Seems to mix up more yellow into each of the pure CMYK colors, and also becomes darker).
I can tell by comparing these results to the printer’s auto-test page, where each color is pure. By the way, the HP Laserjet 2550 has separate toner cartriges for each of the CMYK colors.
I tried the SAME thing in CorelDRAW, but in this case, the colors came out perfectly!!!
The oddest thing is that when I generated a TIFF file from the Photoshop test sample and imported it into CorelDRAW as CMYK, the print-out comes out **distorted** exactly as if it was printed in Photoshop.
I read somewhere that Photoshop converts a CMYK file into RGB before sending the file to printer which may be the cause of this, but then, why does the problem occur when I import the Photoshop file into CorelDRAW?? And why DOESN’T this occur with a CorelDRAW generated file??
I really need to solve this problem.. I’d greatly appreciate anyone’s help!
Thanks.
Here’s the story:
For testing purposes, I painted 4 separate stripes: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black, onto a blank Photoshop CMYK file.
I printed the file with a HP Laserjet 2550 Color printer, and the colors came out **distorted**. (Seems to mix up more yellow into each of the pure CMYK colors, and also becomes darker).
I can tell by comparing these results to the printer’s auto-test page, where each color is pure. By the way, the HP Laserjet 2550 has separate toner cartriges for each of the CMYK colors.
I tried the SAME thing in CorelDRAW, but in this case, the colors came out perfectly!!!
The oddest thing is that when I generated a TIFF file from the Photoshop test sample and imported it into CorelDRAW as CMYK, the print-out comes out **distorted** exactly as if it was printed in Photoshop.
I read somewhere that Photoshop converts a CMYK file into RGB before sending the file to printer which may be the cause of this, but then, why does the problem occur when I import the Photoshop file into CorelDRAW?? And why DOESN’T this occur with a CorelDRAW generated file??
I really need to solve this problem.. I’d greatly appreciate anyone’s help!
Thanks.
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