Re: Printing Question - another try
- From: "Roy G" <royboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:45:42 GMT
"squirrel" <peter.wrighte@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jon,
the image you see on screen and the image that comes out the printer
are often slightly different. Try printing a web page to see if the
effect is the same. If so, it's unlikely there is a problem with the
original image captured by the camera - my next step would be to make
sure you have the most up to date OEM drivers for your laptop and
printer.
Your laptop has an integrated graphics card which uses the Intel 855GM
chipset according to the Dell site.
Latest drivers here
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=939
Latest printer drivers here
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/supDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=14413&infoType=Downloads
Choose your Operating system, download and install. The chipset driver
will require a restart.
If this doesn't work, go into the display settings in windows. Click
the advanced tab under settings. You may have colour management tools
for the display here depending on how much functionality the chip
driver has.
When printing, click file/print/properties. Check you colour settings
are normal. I.e. colour and tone controls neutral (all set to 0+ or
pointer in the middle of any sliding scale). Check you are not using a
specialist colour mode/scheme i.e. text/adobe RGB. Restore defaults if
you can. When using preset quality modes such as "best photo" you may
find that prints are a lot heavier on black ink which can saturate and
darken the look of finished prints.
Next, browse any printer utilities you have. Some utils also have
colour management tools or fine tuning options.
Lastly the obvious... check the monitor brightness setting, make sure
the ink and cartridges are genuine Epson brand for 760..... buy good
quality photo paper.
bear in mind it may be that the printer just can't match the subtle
tonal rage captured by the camera.
Best of luck
Pete
Hi.
The answer you got from Pete was pretty comprehensive.
However I suspect that you will never really get exactly correct colour from
this printer. I know because I had similar problems with my first attempts
at Digital Printing, and could not get anything like the correct Colour, I
was used to from my Darkroom Days.
It is quite old, and from what I can find out, there are no ICC Profiles
avilable for it. So you can not use a proper Colour Managed Workflow, which
is the only way of getting an exact match from Screen to Print on your own
system AND on any other fully C. Managed system.
There is no real way of Calibrating your Screen to ensure that the Colours
it is showing are accurate, without using a moderately expensive hardware
profiler such as a "SPYDER".
By trial and error adjustments of the Printer Colour and Density Sliders,
you should be able to get fairly close to your screen image. That will
result in a "Closed" system, your own results will be accurate enough, but
if you ever get an image printed on another system, it would probably be
incorrect.
The long term answer is to get a proper Photo Printer, like I had to do, and
then learning how to use its ICC Profiles.
Roy G
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