Printing Pictures

[vgonzalez45]

I just bought a Canon Pixma ip4920 printer, and I use Paint Shop Pro X4 - the problem i'm having is that what I see on scrren and what I get when printing a picture are totally different. My computer is a Dell Inspiron laptop. Can anyone give some help on calibrating the colors to match?

[eL_PuSHeR]

Is colour management done under PSP or under your printer driver?

[vgonzalez45]

Actually you can do it with either PSP or the print driver or both

[eL_PuSHeR]

Well. What have you tried so far? Did you try disabling in under PSP or the other way around?

[vgonzalez45]

I've tried disabling on the printer; did not make a difference. I am downloading some target pics that should print correctly, maybe this will help me narrow down where the problem is. I'm thinking it has to do with the PSP handles color correction. I will try to disable that and print my pics to see what happens. I will post an update later.
thanks

[vgonzalez45]

Well, I have disabled color correction on the printer side, still colors are not right. I tried disabling color correction on PSP, still my colors come out to saturated. I downloaded a picture for target testing, that prints fine with the canon easy-print ( I print all my pictures with easy-print). I got a response from PSP support and I tried what they suggested but had no luck. The problem seems to be with the pictures that I edit in PSP; the colors look fine on my screen but when they print it does not look right. Also, the problem is mainly with faces, the skin color is too reddish.

[brucet]

First thing I would do is turn OFF colour management in PSPx4. It's never been any good in any PSP version. Listening Corel? Let the printer handle it.

Then set your printer to its default settings.
Print something and compare it.

Now I bet it's not the same. Never is. I spent zillions of hour trying to match my screen. Calibrated and everything that folks told me to do. So the problem is how you look at the print. Remember the screen is back lit while the print is reflective. Then go outside and look at the print. Do you work at night or during the day. Many many variables. Everything you do will change the way the print looks.

So what to do? Well all I do is turn OFF colour managment and make sure you are using the right paper in the printer. I can get very very close but it is NEVER the same. Never.

I know others will argue the point but I have found that you need to compromise a little.

Regards

[eL_PuSHeR]

I am with Brucet about this.

My Ricoh printer tends to oversaturate the yellow channel and it also darkens things a bit. Playing with colour matching in printer driver is a waste of time imho. What I do is to manually compensate for that. In your case, try tinkering with hue a bit to compensate for over redness...

[printchesco]

You really can't expect your print to turn out exactly as your on-screen design if you don't make the necessary adjustments in anticipation of this. That's why there are the RGB and CMYK printing, which are both printing types that have something to do with the color of your prints.