Home printing anomaly.

[Trevoreast]

I don’t do a lot of home printing.
The mother in law bought a new printer and asked (commanded) me to take away her old printer HP Photosmart 8150.
She gave me a bag with HP premier photo paper and some spare ink cartridges.
Out of curiously I installed it on my PC and tried to print a few snaps, just 6x4s

Here’s what happened: when printing from DPP or PS CS4 I selected the colour profile of the printer in the preferences.
The resultant prints were horrible, with sickly, inaccurate colours.
When I selected no profile in the preferences they were exactly as they were on the monitor.

Anyone know why this is the case, it seems like I'm having to disregard a bit of the "colour calibrated workflow" in order to get good prints.

Trev

[EOS_Jim]

Re: Home printing anomaly.

Is ICC switched off?

[colin C]

Re: Home printing anomaly.

I have had that when CS tried to print in Adobe RGB and the results were "muddy" to say the least. After a while of head scratching and a brief Eureka moment, I enabled sRGB and the results were very good.

Colin

[Trevoreast]

Re: Home printing anomaly.

Thanks for the replies guys !

I haven't tried Adobe RGB for home printing - based on your experience I'll give it a miss.

Trev

[Trevoreast]

Re: Home printing anomaly.

Thanks for the replies guys !

I have had that when CS tried to print in Adobe RGB and the results were "muddy" to say the least. After a while of head scratching and a brief Eureka moment, I enabled sRGB and the results were very good.

Colin, sorry to hear of your experience with the sRGB/ Adobe RGB

It's printing fine so it's a bit if a non issue.

Trev