I've always had difficulties with colors in printing on my old Epson 870 photo printer. I don't do it very often, and learned how to 'get along' with Photoshop Elements for prints. Now I would like to make my new system easier and more foolproof. I've calibrated the monitor, but was very disappointed printing out of Lightroom. The steel gray minivan I photographed showed up like it was under a heatlamp. I had a red or magenta cast on a photo taken in sunlight. Not at all close to the original.
The Epson 870 might be 5 years old? Resolution is satisfactory, but colors wander. Depending on what glossy photo paper I put in the printer, I get different cast & shades. HP & Epson glossy papers are not the answer and I have a bunch generic glossy paper from Staples (because the first 50 sheets I bought from them worked out so well). I hear you guys talk about selecting a paper profile from the printer and I'm jealous. I don't have any profiles to select from and I suspect the printer is too old. I've recently looked into creating some profiles, but thought I'd ask for your collective wisdom. Regards, Bob S. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
