Help with correlating printer colours please

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Sep 1, 2008
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I scanned a colour photograph then viewed it in CS3. Colours were identical. However printing it on glossy photographic paper using a Canon IP4300 produced a dirty mauve colour on the woman’s dress instead of a bright purple. Up until now, I’ve never had this problem.

Printer driver is newer than the one offered on the Canon site. I’ve changed the Color Profiles every which way, set the printer to show glossy photographic paper and tried no color management, and let either the printer or Photoshop manage colours. Six sheets of paper later I’m no further ahead. Now all the default settings are so mixed up I don’t know where I’m at. Even the Preview feature in the Print command shows an accurate colour which doesn’t match the printed photograph.

Help!! How do I get the printer to match colours shown on the monitor?
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Dave
Sep 1, 2008
On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:51:42 -0400, wrote:

I scanned a colour photograph then viewed it in CS3. Colours were identical. However printing it on glossy photographic paper using a Canon IP4300 produced a dirty mauve colour on the woman’s dress instead of a bright purple. Up until now, I’ve never had this problem.

Printer driver is newer than the one offered on the Canon site. I’ve changed the Color Profiles every which way, set the printer to show glossy photographic paper and tried no color management, and let either the printer or Photoshop manage colours. Six sheets of paper later I’m no further ahead. Now all the default settings are so mixed up I don’t know where I’m at. Even the Preview feature in the Print command shows an accurate colour which doesn’t match the printed photograph.

Help!! How do I get the printer to match colours shown on the monitor?

Click on whichever search machine you make use of and type ‘calibrating the monitor’ or simply only ‘calibrating’ or anything to the effect.
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Ragnar
Sep 1, 2008
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I scanned a colour photograph then viewed it in CS3. Colours were identical. However
printing it on glossy photographic paper using a Canon IP4300 produced a dirty mauve
colour on the woman’s dress instead of a bright purple. Up until now, I’ve never had this
problem.

Printer driver is newer than the one offered on the Canon site. I’ve changed the Color
Profiles every which way, set the printer to show glossy photographic paper and tried no
color management, and let either the printer or Photoshop manage colours. Six sheets of
paper later I’m no further ahead. Now all the default settings are so mixed up I don’t
know where I’m at. Even the Preview feature in the Print command shows an accurate colour
which doesn’t match the printed photograph.

Help!! How do I get the printer to match colours shown on the monitor?

Sounds like a gamut problem to me. Open your image and switch to CMYK mode; if the colours instantly go dull then your colours are out of gamut and there’s very little you can about it I’m afraid. If the colours still look OK in CMYK but continue to print badly, then it’s more likely a monitor adjustment or colour management problem.
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R.
Sep 1, 2008
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 16:45:49 +0100, "Ragnar" wrote:

Sounds like a gamut problem to me. Open your image and switch to CMYK mode; if the colours instantly go dull then your colours are out of gamut and there’s very little you can about it I’m afraid. If the colours still look OK in CMYK but continue to print badly, then it’s more likely a monitor adjustment or colour management problem.

Thanks, Ragnar, for your input.

The colours look fine on the monitor no matter which mode I use and no matter which picture I load, as long as it’s a colour mode and not grayscale, of course. Strangely enough, printing from ACDSee works fine but it doesn’t go into enough detail about the colour settings to copy to adjust P’shop.

Any sort of print preview looks fine too. It’s just that when the photo comes out of the printer, the colours are wrong. Tried "Printer manages colors" in the Print option but that doesn’t help any.

I don’t want to play around with the monitor colour settings because they seem just fine the way they are. It’s only this one photo that’s causing problems with the printer.

Any further ideas?
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Talker
Sep 1, 2008
On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:34:18 -0400, circe wrote:

On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 16:45:49 +0100, "Ragnar" wrote:
Sounds like a gamut problem to me. Open your image and switch to CMYK mode; if the colours instantly go dull then your colours are out of gamut and there’s very little you can about it I’m afraid. If the colours still look OK in CMYK but continue to print badly, then it’s more likely a monitor adjustment or colour management problem.

Thanks, Ragnar, for your input.

The colours look fine on the monitor no matter which mode I use and no matter which picture I load, as long as it’s a colour mode and not grayscale, of course. Strangely enough, printing from ACDSee works fine but it doesn’t go into enough detail about the colour settings to copy to adjust P’shop.

Any sort of print preview looks fine too. It’s just that when the photo comes out of the printer, the colours are wrong. Tried "Printer manages colors" in the Print option but that doesn’t help any.

I don’t want to play around with the monitor colour settings because they seem just fine the way they are. It’s only this one photo that’s causing problems with the printer.
Any further ideas?

If you’ve calibrated your monitor, then you probably need to calibrate your printer. You can buy the equipment and do it yourself, or you can use one of the online profilers like
http://www.cathysprofiles.com/ I use her profiles for my printer and they work well. Her costs are reasonable and once you have the profile, your prints should match your monitor.

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Roy G
Sep 2, 2008
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I scanned a colour photograph then viewed it in CS3. Colours were identical. However
printing it on glossy photographic paper using a Canon IP4300 produced a dirty mauve
colour on the woman’s dress instead of a bright purple. Up until now, I’ve never had this
problem.

Printer driver is newer than the one offered on the Canon site. I’ve changed the Color
Profiles every which way, set the printer to show glossy photographic paper and tried no
color management, and let either the printer or Photoshop manage colours. Six sheets of
paper later I’m no further ahead. Now all the default settings are so mixed up I don’t
know where I’m at. Even the Preview feature in the Print command shows an accurate colour
which doesn’t match the printed photograph.

Help!! How do I get the printer to match colours shown on the monitor?

If the colours are Ok on ACDC but not in Ps, then it is very likely one or more errors in your Colour Management set up.

If it only this one Image, then that would indicate that it is something specific to that one Image.

It could be that its "Tagged" Colour Profile is different from your other Prints?

For normal Inkjet printing you should really only be using sRGB or Adobe RGB.

Or it might even be in the wrong Colour Space (Mode).
Is the image in RGB, as it should be, or in LAB or CMYK ?

If you send a CMYK Image to an inkjet printer you will get rubbish colours out.

Roy G
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Joel
Sep 3, 2008
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I scanned a colour photograph then viewed it in CS3. Colours were identical. However printing it on glossy photographic paper using a Canon IP4300 produced a dirty mauve colour on the woman’s dress instead of a bright purple. Up until now, I’ve never had this problem.

Printer driver is newer than the one offered on the Canon site. I’ve changed the Color Profiles every which way, set the printer to show glossy photographic paper and tried no color management, and let either the printer or Photoshop manage colours. Six sheets of paper later I’m no further ahead. Now all the default settings are so mixed up I don’t know where I’m at. Even the Preview feature in the Print command shows an accurate colour which doesn’t match the printed photograph.

Help!! How do I get the printer to match colours shown on the monitor?

1. Calibrate your monitor

2. Download and load the specific Printer Profile to your Photoshop

3. Use Ctrl-Y (I think as I don’t have Photoshop running at the moment to check the command) to toggle between Monitor/Printing viewing.

And after you got the BASIC monitor and printer setup correctly, then you can start adjusting the color to your liking. Also, you may have some problem with the shinning effect on many colors (especially RED channel), and Photo Paper or Ink can be the source of problem too. So you may want to try different Paper from different manufacture (if you don’t use Canon’s Photo paper).

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