Photoshop printing question

[Sharon Kay]

Oh acckkk! This sublimation printer that our team has has whacked with my printer settings ... even when I change it back to MY OWN Epson printer ... something is screwed up in the printer settings and I can't figure out what. Everything is printing darker than it used to.

Can someone help me?







I have it set to NOT choose Photo Enhance because that does seem to make the pictures printer darker ...



I'm sure it is some little setting somewhere I am missing. ...and ignore that I have a layout sending to print ... it's actually a photo with sky behind it that was LOTS lighter that was printing out darker.

Any help would be appreciated!

[Sharon Kay]

accckkk!!! No one knows? I can't believe it ... surely someone has their default settings for printing ???? bumping ... please! I have a TON I need to print!

[ColleenSwerb]

I don't print through PS so I can't help sharon. I flatten my files and save them as jpgs and then print them.

[aggiefamily]

What is your document color profile in photoshop?

[mummytothree]

I sometimes print through PSE (version6) so not sure if I'll be of help or not. Mine doesn't quite look like yours but of what does this is what is different on mine from yours:

1. Under Color Handling mine says "Printer manages color".
2. The box that says" Black Point Compensation" is not checked!!

Hope that helps a little!

[Sharon Kay]

Originally Posted by aggiefamily

What is your document color profile in photoshop?

when I bring in a photo into CS3 (I use the adobe raw settings for jpg) it is:

Adobe RGB (1998); 8 bit; 388 by 2592 (10.1MP); 300ppi

....it's the pictures that are printing dark and they aren't dark when you view them...

...is this something that needs to be changed??

[Sharon Kay]

Originally Posted by mummytothree

I sometimes print through PSE (version6) so not sure if I'll be of help or not. Mine doesn't quite look like yours but of what does this is what is different on mine from yours:

1. Under Color Handling mine says "Printer manages color".
2. The box that says" Black Point Compensation" is not checked!!

Hope that helps a little!

Well unchecking the box seems to help ... but changing it to the 3 different options (photoshop manges, no color management, and printer manages) ... seems to make only the slightest change in the printout .... still not what I am seeing on the screen...everything is darker. so strange.

I went to advanced mode inside the printer dialog ... to RESET DEFAULTS ... and the COLOR MANAGEMENT changed from ICM to Color Controls which I have no idea what that means.

Wish it would TOTALLY reset to default but I don't think it is doing that ...

I want to get a lot of layouts and pictures printed but want to make sure I have the settings right so I don't waste ink and paper.

The picture on the screen is a LOT lighter than what is printing out.

Appreciate the help!

[mummytothree]

This really a shot in the dark since I am essentially using a different program but I know how frustrating it can be to not have things right so I'm gonna throw this out there.

Go under edit ---> color settings (or CTRL + SHIFT +K) and see what you have "checked". Since one of my options under that is "Always Optimize for Printing". Who knows maybe that will help.

Also I would think that if it looks ok on screen and it's only messing up when printing maybe something got messed up with your printer/print manager. Have you tried saving one of the images as a jpeg and printing it through another program (ACDSee or Windows, ect)?

[pewtertm]

Originally Posted by ColleenSwerb

I don't print through PS so I can't help sharon. I flatten my files and save them as jpgs and then print them.

Yep, that's what I do too.

[Sharon Kay]

Ok here is the window that opened up...