When I bought a new Canon iP8700 printer I did a few test prints and got a poor result i.e. the print was nothing like what I saw on the screen so I adjusted the scree colour to see if I could get a better match but no joy. Tried from 5000 t0 9000 degrees. So I printed the exact same image fro Light Room and It was pretty good at the natural point for the screen. My test image is of a set of Crayola kids pencils ( the cases not the colour they give on paper. Colours cover the complete spectrum fairly well. The Photo Shop image appears dull, flat low saturation the white background (Kodak Ultra Premium Paper is far from white.
Without exact print settings and other info nobody can tell you much, but presumably you may have enebaled "Let PS manage colors" or something like that and introduced a conflict with color profiles vs. the printer's native driver optimizations this way.
Set both applications to "let the printer manage color" in the print dialog. This is a safe and "simple" setting.
This is the default in Lightroom, but in Photoshop the default is to "let Photoshop manage color". This more accurate and flexible, but it requires that you use the correct print profiles for your paper and ink. Not all printer manufacturers supply profiles for all their models, or not at all.
You still need to go into print settings and make sure you have the correct paper type here.
3
Replies
AdChoices