can’t get proper color to print

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Robert_Rundbaken
Jun 25, 2004
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I have Photoshop CS. I have been trying to print with CS and with Elements but my prints do not match what I have in PS. They are overly cool. Basically the colors are off. I assigned the Adobe RGB 1998 color profile to the image, I’ve tried printing with the colorsync option, none and BJ standard. Same results. I have tried other color profiles. The images come from a canon digital camera, the D60.

However when I printed via Acrobat Reader after previewing, the print came out significantly closer to what I am seeing on the monitor.

This color problem occured in Elements and now in CS. Is there some other setting for the printer that I am missing regarding color management?

I am using a Canon i950, using canon paper (glossy plus). I have the correct paper settings when I go to print. I have tried all sorts of settings and always the same poor results when I print from PS. What am I missing that is causing this? I am at my wits end as this has been going on for a couple of months and I have not found a solution while burning dozens of images.

Thanks

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Robert_Barnett
Jun 26, 2004
This is an overly simple way to color calibrate, but it works for most non-professionals. Take an image and print it, then adjust your monitor to match the print as closely as possible. Now, when you get the image to look the way you want on screen it will come out very close to that on your printer.

The draw back is if you have more than one color printer and your monitor doesn’t allow you to save custom setting profiles. Then you just have to choose the printer you use most and calibrate your monitor for it.

This is what I do and have been very pleased with the results. BTW I have a Canon i9100.

Robert
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LenHewitt
Jun 26, 2004
Robert_B,

That’s about the worst advice on colour control you could possibly give to anyone! It’s what we had to do back in the days of Photoshop 3! Things have moved on since those dark days.

Robert_R,

Take out 15 minutes or so to view the tutorials on
http://www.computer-darkroom.com – and for goodness sake ignore the advice re your monitor in the previous post.
GH
Gary_Hummell
Jun 26, 2004
Expanding on LenHewitt’s response, if you edit your images with a monitor that is deliberately miscalibrated, you can be sure that all of your editing work from that point on will be wrong. Worse yet, if you change printers, none of your previous images will print correctly without major color correction.

Gary
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Robert_Rundbaken
Jun 28, 2004
Hi,

Thanks. I am going through the tutorials but I really don’t think it’s a monitor calibration problem. I have gone through the calibration process repeatedly. My monitor looks fine. The colors look great.

My images in PS even before I do any correction look great. No matter what settings I try, the images print blue. I previewed an image in Acrobat and tried printing from there and the image came out closer to my PS image though it appeared not to have the subtle corrections I made BUT it was much closer to the image then what’s printed from PS. It looked good.

When you look at the PS printed image and the Acrobat printed image it’s night and day. Literally. I can recalibrate my monitor every which way and the images printed in PS come out awful as if the printer is not getting the revised image I have on my monitor. The non PS image has great skin tones and generally accurate color. The PS image has bluish red skin tones and is generally overly cool.

I’ve checked the images color profiles, changed them, matched them to the monitor profile, turned color management on and off, I’ve lost track of all the combinations I’ve tried. And no matter how I change the tonality of the image in PS, when it prints it’s as if I have done nothing. They all come out the same.

I am missing something but so far when I have looked at all these help pages I can’t seem to find a solution that addresses this. I acknowledge that I may have not done something or have done something wrong that is preventing my corrected PS image from printing but what that is I do not know.
RR
Robert_Rundbaken
Jun 28, 2004
Thanks,

I have gone through all sorts of calibrations for the monitor. The monitor looks fine. The nimages, whether I look at them in PS, Acrobat Canon Image Browser and so on look good. Whenh they print from PS they come out bluish. When I previewed in Acrobat and printed from there they look fine albeit it appears not to have the subtle corrections I made.

The images are neither not retaining the corrections I made or PS and or the printer are ignoring them or the printer is getting or using wrong instructions and I can’t figure it out. I double check to make sure the images have a color profile, I ‘ve changed the profile, I have tried Colorsync in the print options, I have tried BJ standard in the print options, I have tried none. Nothing changes with the output and I have dozens of awful prints as a result of all this expereimenting.
RR
Robert_Rundbaken
Aug 31, 2004
I seem to have solved the ‘blue’ problem. I switched to Photoshop CS, Canon paper and inks. I’m back to using the embedded profile from my camera (sRGB IEC 619966-2.1 and I set up my monitor to essentially please my eye using the Mac display tool. I set it for sRGB 2.2 Gamma.

I’m rather pleased with the results. I also picked up PS CS Real World by Blattner but haven’t cracked it yet

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