Printing and colors.
 

Anyone here know much about printing and color profiles, seems i cant get my printouts nice. if i use vistas in built option my prints are washed with yellow, when i use photoshop the colors are all washed out, im using matt paper and a epson r220.

Well using glossy paper should make a difference.

But have you calibrated your display? Google a guide for your version of Photoshop if you haven't.

whats this you bought a printer cartridge...... blah blah moan moan [rofl]http://discussworldissues.com/forums...lies/wink1.gif

is the printer set to auto and do you use refills instead on new cartridges ?

I honestly don't think the paper style would make much difference after all you can develop a picture on mat and gloss paper and it wouldn't make a difference apart from the obvious mat or gloss finish.

have you played with the printer ICM's and associated one with photoshop ?.

For real calibration you need to buy a monitor calibration device. I don't know how much they cost in the U.K. but I have a Pantone Huey Pro. It was $129 US. You can calibrate multiple monitors with it and its easy to do.

Then use a proofing tool (I think PS has this) after calibrating the monitor. You should be able to download your printer's ICC profile and use a proofing program to display how it will come out of the printer. Also make sure that you are using Adobe RGB as your default colour space on Photoshop.

I set the color profile to adobe rgb and now it seems to match what im seeing on the screen, Thanks for the help anyways.

My mum brought the carts to do her some pics http://discussworldissues.com/forums...es/tongue1.gif