Printing help please

[Trex500]

Could some one please give me some help on whats the best
way of getting what i see on screen to print the same,:bang: i am having great trouble with colour match,:shrug:
photos are saved as TIFF, printer is Epson 1290, paper is Epson glossy, i use photoshop 6 elements as edit program. I think red seems to be the worst match. I have tried every setting this way and that in printer settings but nothing is that good. any tips would be great thanks.

 

[R8JimBob88]

Make sure you have matching colour spaces. Eg sRGB abd Adobe colours

 

[Trex500]

Thanks for replying, i think every thing is set as rgb.ect as it should be, i have had enough, going out to buy a canon printer see if thats any better, gone through a set of inks in one afternoon. :bang:

 

[Badger UK]

Could some one please give me some help on whats the best
way of getting what i see on screen to print the same,:bang: i am having great trouble with colour match,:shrug:
photos are saved as TIFF, printer is Epson 1290, paper is Epson glossy, i use photoshop 6 elements as edit program. I think red seems to be the worst match. I have tried every setting this way and that in printer settings but nothing is that good. any tips would be great thanks.

I know what you mean about prints not looking the same. I love prints but I'm always disapointed when I get them back from the lab. I'm spending more and more time on Photoshop and I've been trying all sorts of combinations without too much luck. I'm never sure if it's me or the lab or the calibration of the monitor (i'm using a laptop) or whatever. A bloody nightmere it is, I'm loosing more and more of my life sitting on the computer and throwing more and more dosh at the labs. I'll get there eventually though.

 

[EOS_JD]

Thanks for replying, i think every thing is set as rgb.ect as it should be, i have had enough, going out to buy a canon printer see if thats any better, gone through a set of inks in one afternoon. :bang:

OK before you do that you need to learn/know why your colours don't match. Canon or Epson, it won't matter!

Is your printer calibrated?

Do you use original Epson cartridges?

And are you using the appropriate paper/printer profile?

If you answer no to any of these this can be a start to why your images look different.

Also what colour space are you using for your images? Adobe RGB (aRGB), sRGB??? Each produce colours differently.

 

[Chappers]

To be honest if you hand calibrated your monitor you are not really going to have much luck
Go through the posts ok this site to see what effect it can have. Rather than go and spend your money on new printer try getting a Huey instead

 

[Trex500]

Thanks for replying, after much printing yesterday, complete set of inks, 35 sheets of paper, i still could not get the picture as per screen/as per taken, the camera/computer screen was correct for colours. i tried printing from photo shop, windows, other programs i have. I went out and bought a canon 4500 last night, set the paper correct, (canon glossy) told it to print, it was just perfect I have used the epson for a while and have always had to change the pic in photo shop to try an get it ,as taken, but i did 10 on the canon last night as every one was spot on. Long may it last.



OK before you do that you need to learn/know why your colours don't match. Canon or Epson, it won't matter!

Is your printer calibrated?

Do you use original Epson cartridges?

And are you using the appropriate paper/printer profile?

As far as i know epson printer calibrated as per instructions, inks are epson, paper epson, printer profiles tried every one, different ways possible.

Again i thank you for help.

 

[dcash29]

To be honest if you hand calibrated your monitor you are not really going to have much luck

All depends if you have the eye. I calibrated my monitor with adobe gamma then again when i purchased Printfix Pro the difference is marginal.

Ive been there in the past, outputting sheet after sheet and i'll tell you now STOP buy a profile, that said i cant understand why people cant get good prints when using original carts and paper. Your monitor must be miles out

Dave