Printed image not as in PSP X5

[Audy20]

Hi there,
I am struggling to get my Canon MG3650 to print the same or nearly the same as on my Laptop Acer Aspire V3 in PSP X5 workspace.
I have read all the info on Color Management and followed all the steps but it still prints my Lilac roses Pink. I am including a image of the Lilac roses.
I have tried scanning the printed pink roses but on screen they look lilac???

Can you help please
Audy

[Jean-Luc]

Your Lilac roses ARE pink. They are not lilac (blue).
It seems you have a problem with your screen.
Could you display your image on another PC or a smartphone or something different? You will compare how your image displays.

PS 1: I suppose you speak about 'blue' lilac and not white lilac.

PS 2: Is your image 'lilac' inside PSP only or also in another program (Word, Windows Explorer, Windows Photos)?

[bruce1951]

Printing isn't a simple matter of expecting see on paper what you see on your screen. Especially a laptop screen.

You have to ensure your editing program is right. Printer is right. Screen is right. Ink is right. Paper is right. And last of all the light in the room you are viewing the image is right.
Colour management is an inexact science. Most of the time you have to be content with 'near enough is good enough'.

[JoeB]

I don't use a laptop so don't know how much screen calibration it offers. However, I would suggest that you first turn off color management in PSP because it has never worked properly and in the top field of the color management dialogue it should read sRGB Color Space Profile. Then use whatever screen calibration button your laptop screen has and adjust your screen using various free calibration images that are available on the web. Then open your image in PSP and see if it now looks more pink to you as it does to us in your posted attachment. If so, you can then tweak the colors of the image again to get it closer to what you are looking to achieve.

However, as Bruce says, there are many factors involved and you will not get an exact reproduction on paper of what you see on the screen, as the screen is emitting light to make the image visible and the paper is reflecting light. Also, the amount and type of ambient light as it changes throughout the day is going to make the same image (on screen or paper) look somewhat different throughout those lighting changes. For most non-professional print work you just have to accept "close enough for government work" as your goal.