I hadn't been doing a lot of home printing mainly because my printer had got long-in-the-tooth and as the rollers wore it became more and more reluctant to pick-up the heavy photo card I like to use. However, I recently bought a Canon Pixma TS8050 that, with a rear tray for photo card, means I can now print at home again. Well, except that the prints are far too dark and lack the sparkle of what I see on the screen.
I did mention this in another thread <Here> suspecting it may have been my screen was too bright but was reassured that it was OK (as is my tablet and smartphone) and that I should investigate printer settings and/or paper profiles.
I've always used either Windows 'Photos' or 'Photo Gallery' depending on what version of Windows I'm using but looking at printer settings in both I can't see how to increase the brightness.
Google doesn't give any specific advice for my printer but there are indications that I can expect different results when printing from Photoshop over Lightroom so I shouldn't be too surprised that printing from Windows is yet another variable.
My workflow starts with RAW and PP resulting in a 'finished' jpeg and it's this I want to print so having to return to my processing software seems wrong to me as it introduces additional steps.
So, how do people here print?
Also, what paper should I be buying and are 'paper profiles' only something users of the high-end 'Pro' printers concern themselves with?
Cheers,
John
I did mention this in another thread <Here> suspecting it may have been my screen was too bright but was reassured that it was OK (as is my tablet and smartphone) and that I should investigate printer settings and/or paper profiles.
I've always used either Windows 'Photos' or 'Photo Gallery' depending on what version of Windows I'm using but looking at printer settings in both I can't see how to increase the brightness.
Google doesn't give any specific advice for my printer but there are indications that I can expect different results when printing from Photoshop over Lightroom so I shouldn't be too surprised that printing from Windows is yet another variable.
My workflow starts with RAW and PP resulting in a 'finished' jpeg and it's this I want to print so having to return to my processing software seems wrong to me as it introduces additional steps.
So, how do people here print?
Also, what paper should I be buying and are 'paper profiles' only something users of the high-end 'Pro' printers concern themselves with?
Cheers,
John
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