 Roland Towey |
Altering Printer Settings I have a Epson 460. Although not a true photo printer, it is capable of prints which are acceptable for some aplications. The problem I am experiencing is that the finished prints are a lot darker than that viewed on monitor. How do I colour correct this printer? Any suggestions will be greatfully recieved regards Roland.
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Ken Pang |
Roland, In most photo editing prgrams, you have a setting called "Brightness" What you can do is get a photo, print it, and save the print. Mark it as zero. Print it again, this time with the brightness up 10%. Mark this 1. Repeat until you are happy with the colour of the photo, then note the percentage brightness correction. In the future, you should be able to consistently increase the brightness by that much and it should be immediately correct without you messing around with settings. The alternative is that some printers might have a "saturation" on it, or even a "brightness" setting. Though since you said that it was not a true photo printer, I doubt that it would. Have a look under your printer settings anyway. Ken
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Roland, I have also noticed that images get much more saturated with ink (and thus darker) when I use plain paper. Try using Epson Photo Quality Ink Jet Paper or another such paper and see if this helps.
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