I have just bought a HP Photosmart 7510. When I print. Photo from my PC the quality is really good. When I print the same photo from my IPAD via AirPrint the quality is poor. The colours aren't as good and the photos look smudged. This is using the same paper.
Is there something I can do to improve the quality via AirPrint? This is the reason I bought the printer?
Thanks
Ian
iPad, iOS 5.1.1
I Have given up trying to print decent photo's straight from my iPad, they are always poorly coloured and have an orange or green cast.
Exactly the same picture prints perfectly over airprint from my PC running Elements 7.
NOt sure if any settings can be changed?
Cc
Due to certain limitations to printing, the iPad (or iPhone) is not going to have the proper calibaration that PC's and Macs have due to additional drivers. Also, from what I have seen out of photos printing, the resolution is lowered to create a smaller file to beam across the air. I get this same issue myself with photos, but I usually use something other than my iPhone or iPad to print photos.
What is the source of the photo? Was it taken on the iPad/iPhone or was it taken elsewhere and transfered to the iOS device? Photos taken on the iPhone and printed from there are calibrated and are sent to the printer in full resolution.
Are you printing on photo paper?
The source of the photo is a digital camera (14MP). I transfer the photo to the iPad directly from the SD card using the apple camera adapter. I'm printing on HP photo paper.
I then transferred the image from the iPad to my PC and then printed that image from the PC onto the same photo paper. This is how I know the problem isn't with the image on the iPad, but something to do with printing that image via AirPrint.
Do you know if the photos are being saved as a RAW photo file by your high end digital camera? If so, when you transfer to the iPad using the camera connection kit, the iPad has to use a small, lower quality JPEG preview of the RAW file when displaying and printing.
Note that photos sync'd to the iPad are downsized (to ~3MP) so they are not the full resolution as what is on the computer.
Why is AirPrint quality poor
