bad photo print quality with Canon printer (new user - help needed!!!)

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bad photo print quality with Canon printer (new user - help needed!!!)

Hello!
My question may be a stupid one, sorry, but I'm a new Apple user 🙂

My computer is a new bought (yesterday!) iMac - Intel Core 2 Duo 2,8 GHz 24", and my printer an also new bought (last week) multifunction Canon PIXMA MP610.

Before we got our iMac we used a Sony Notebook with Windows XP and we obtained a very good quality by printing photos.
Today I printed phots on the same photo paper as usual and it was quite bad. Since it was working well with the other computer, I suppose that there is no problem on the printer (by the way: no problem by printing normal text documents...).

Could someone tell me a solution?

Thanks in advance
and best greeting from Grenoble!

iMac Intel Core 2 Duo 2,8 GHz 24", Mac OS X (10.5), PHOTO PRINT (Canon printer)

Posted on Aug 23, 2008 1:46 PM

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PAHU

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Aug 23, 2008 5:11 PM in response to tardjuman

Welcome to the world of Mac and the Apple forums.

The thing to watch with printing on photo paper is that you have selected the paper type in the driver settings.

If you were printing from iPhoto, from the print dialog pane you will see the MP610 and below that is the Presets menu. Make sure you select 'Photo on Photo Paper'. The default is 'Photo on Plain Paper' which has a smaller colour range (gamut) than the profile for photo paper.

If you were printing from some other application, then you may have to open the 'Quality & Media' menu from the print dialog and select Photo Paper in the Media Type section and 'Printing a top-quality photo' in the Print Mode section.

Hope this helps,

PaHu

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tardjuman Author

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Oct 6, 2008 11:54 AM in response to PAHU

Dear PaHu,
Sorry to answer so late... I finally found the solution myself and forgot to look after the answers in the forum... And, of course, you were right: it was just a matter of paper selection! Such an easy thing! Sorry to have maybe disturbed you for that... Thank you very much, anyway!!!
Best regards.

tardjuman

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