Photoshop Printed Colour Problem

skinnyl

skinnyl

skinnyl

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I'm going round to see someone with the above problem. Everything she creates in Photoshop is either lighter or darker, significantly (from what I'm told), when it has been printed.

As i am no way a Photoshop guru i was thinking maybe theres a monitor contrast issue. I have had a little browse of a few related forums with no concrete answers.

Is this anything anyone has had any experience of? I haven't been round there yet so I'm not sure of the printer model. Just putting the feelers out.

Ta!
 
This kind of thing can happen when you buy cheap ink for the printer, its happend with me in the past, not with photoshop, but in general.
 
something points in the direction of printer profiles, i have never came across this before so i could be wrong. just make sure that the printer colour profile is installed and photoshop is using it, dont ask me how to do this as i dont know. just a feeling as i have installed CS2 and noticed something about defining what printer you are using.

as i dont have a printer i always leave it on its default setting (what ever it may be)
 
Its down to calibration and profiles for your monitor AND your printer.

If you're printing an RGB image to a CMYK printer, you'll get colour drifts, and vice versa. In which case you'll need to sort your conversion profiles out for sure.
 
excellent, thanks for the prompt replies :)

Have you any good links so i can have a read up? and i guess i need the model of the printer for any further research into the right profile?
 
Good stuff, i think i have the measure of it. i have found the ICC profiles for the printer and discovered Adobe Gamma. So i will go armed with that and see what happens :)

Thanks for the help peeps!
 
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