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How do I calibrate my iMac & printer ( hp Photosmart Pro B8850 ) the images look superb on the mac screen but dull when printed, there is no way to adjust the printer i.e. brightness, contrast, colour correction ect.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
To really calibrate it is expensive & difficult, but open ColorSync Utility for a start, or in the Print Dialog look for Colorsync>Color Conversion, & Quarz Filter>Lightness Decrease.
To really calibrate it is expensive & difficult, but open ColorSync Utility for a start, or in the Print Dialog look for Colorsync>Color Conversion, & Quarz Filter>Lightness Decrease.
Thanks BDAqua, I cant seem to find colorSync Utility, or Print Dialog, the only thing I could find is Calibration under the display tab, but this only resets the monitor which is fine, could you give me more help please ?
If you are printing photographs on standard copier paper then this is the result you will get - Try some photographic paper, it is more expensive but the results should be outstanding compared to standard copier paper.
Jerry
Thanks Jerry, I am already using High grade photo paper hp advanced glossy paper.
Every Priner & OS is different, but when you choose Print or CMD+p, look for something like this...
Thanks again BDAqua, now I'm getting somewhere 🙂
Great news, thanks Mick! 🙂
Clicking on that Colorsync one may dhow more options here specific to your Printer.
Hi BDAqua, just to let you know "preview" is the one that works for me, I get all the options I used to get on my PC, all the colour options, brightness, saturation, print in greyscale, ect, ect, where I was going wrong, I was trying to print form E10 which doesnt have all these options, but if I adjust the image in E10 and paste it into pictures and open "print" from there, it works perfect, thanks again.........Mick.
p.s. Hope this may be of help to others with the same problem.
Hi BDAqua,
I cannot get this box to pop up in either Preview or PSElements, which is the current photo editing software I'm using. The box has a "color matching" portion, and a colorsync button to click. Then I can choose from various printer settings, adobe settings, and one iMac setting, none of which gave me good color matching and the photos still have lost much of their vibrancy. (Yes, I printed the same photo on photo paper about 20 times to compare.)
Any other hints? I'm desperate!
P.S. I'm on OS 10.7.5
How do I calibrate iMac to my printer ( hp b8850 ) The images look superb on the mac screen but look dull when printed
