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Jun 5, 2009 4:55 PM

I have trouble getting proper skin tones when I print eventho the color looks great on the screen. On print w/ preview, I have checked "Let photoshop determine the color". Skin tones look colorless when I print w/ my Canon Pro 9000. If I print using Automate, East Print, the colors are OK but the size can't be adjusted. Any suggestion?

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    Jun 6, 2009 6:19 AM

    1000girl wrote:

     

    On print w/ preview, I have checked "Let photoshop determine the color"

     

    Why? Unless your system is fully calibrated, that is utterly pointless and from your description that seems the whole source of evil. Just let the printer driver do the rasterization and color sep and you should get much better results, especially when it is a model with extra inks that PS has no clue about. It's whole management is based on astandard RGB to Lab to CMYK process without special recognition of dedicated photo inks. If you wanted to sue them correctly inside PS, you'd need the proper profiles or build a manual per-channel separation for each ink...

     

    Mylenium

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    Jun 9, 2009 12:39 PM

    Linda--

     

    I'm confused. Did you print it from CS2 and then edit it with the printer software?

     

    It sounds like a issue with the printer and PS using different color profiles. Remember, just because it looks correct on screen doesn't mean it will print the same. Printing and screen rendering are often not even close to matching unless you've had everything calibrated.

     

    I would double check all of your other output settings as well  (in addition to letting the printer manage the color profiles). I find I correct a lot of output problems with by fiddling with the output settings (it's also a great way to learn what all the output settings control!)

     

    Drew

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    Jun 10, 2009 1:01 PM

    Can you post screenshots so I can get a better idea of how its changing?

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    Jun 12, 2009 7:22 AM

    Linda--

     

    I don't see the attachments

     

    Drew

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    Jun 12, 2009 9:04 AM

    I'm still not seing them. Are you using the attachments control at the bottom of the post window or the camera icon in the top controls?

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    Jun 12, 2009 9:16 AM

    Judging by that annoying message footer, Linda is not using the web interface! 

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    Jun 12, 2009 9:18 AM

    Yeah I think she's replying to the email notifications...which I tried one time and it didn't work, so I thought you couldn't do that

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    Jun 12, 2009 6:16 PM

    I have the same printer and no complaints at all. One solution would be to buy a monitor calibration device, down to $79 now. (see Spyder at http://spyder.datacolor.com/product-mc-s2e.php). Over print out a large portrait and fix it alongside the monitor. Now adjust the monitor colours until the display matches the print. This is what I did with a laptop. Now if you correct the image to look "normal" it should print out with good results.

     

    David

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