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Hi Angie,

I find that what I see on the monitor never quite exactly comes out on print. The best I can describe it is a slight reduction in saturation when going from monitor to paper. I have decided to leave it that way since the print does not glow! I don't see any posibility of getting it exact since the monitor has it's own light source and the print only reflects.

I was tweaking in Epson colorlife paper in the evening with incandescent and daylight fluorescent lights to view the prints under and I thought it looked dead on. The next day with sunlight entering the room the color was slightly off. Most people would never notice the slight error but of course WE know so it must be corrected. Oh well, back to the drawing board.

The Epson folks have provided all kinds of info as to slider settings and an ICC profile for their colorlife paper but the stuff requires rather extensive tweaking to get it right. Skin tones in portraiture has always required more tweaking. I usually end up with at least four prints to get it right with colorlife but I can use heavy matte or premium glossy photo paper and it will be dead on at the first try (minus the wonderful glow of the monitor screen).

Regards,Charlie
 
Angie,

You need to profile your system. Take a look at http://www.luminous-landscape.com . It is a BIG site but eventually you will find info on profiling your system. This involves exactly the problem you are having. You monitor sees things one way and your printer another. Profiling a system can get very complicated so as you begin to read dont get discouraged. Anything to the farthest degree is hard. Just start reading all you can find and eventually you will find a simple solution to get things to look fairly accurate from screen to print.

I dont remember but I think you have to have PS 5.5 to get ICC profiling for your system. Dont be discouraged at this either. You should be able to make some adjustments to your printer that will help. Good luck.

Larry
Angie said:
I posted this in the printer forum. But I wanted to ask here too.

Because I get such good advice here and quick too...

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1003&message=2015660

Thanks,
Angie
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Angie

In Settings, Control Panel do you Adobe Gamma? If so double click and do what it says.

Richard
Angie said:
Rcihard said:
Sorry know very little about Canon priters but I expect like Epson
you have to create printer profiles so that wysiwyg. Photoshop is
much better for this aspect.

Richard
Angie said:
I posted this in the printer forum. But I wanted to ask here too.

Because I get such good advice here and quick too...

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1003&message=2015660

Thanks,
Angie
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