My prints are yellow!

I have really tried all of the above.
I have been using digital files to print for several years.
I am well aware of the various color profiles for printing.
None of them work; my printer prints yellow.
Thanks.
a.

I have done those things; the photos supplied with Aperture came out way too warm, too much yellow. I have printed other photos using Preview, and have tried CMYK. CMYK was perhaps a little better, but still unacceptable.
I spent about four hours Monday at the local Apple Store with their head tech; we installed my copy of Aperture (they don't have a copy) on a new iMac 20 Intel like mine. Same results.
Please be a little more specific, if you can, about changing the color management profiles for the programs. I have tried just about every option in the print dialog.
Thanks,
Arthur

The discussion continues on the Aperture group.

no matter what app i print from there is a yellow
cast. i didn't have any problems with my powerbook,
to be honest its really really getting on my nerves!
i bought the printer to be able to do decent photo
prints as i'm a freelance photographer and its
practically useless. even black and white prints are
yellowish!

Well, welcome to the club! I've used Photoshop for Windows--whatever the current version was--for years. The routine was to open the raw files, accept the automatic adjustments, save, and print. Since Mac is famed as a photographer's computer, I expected something similar. And Aperture sounded like a dream, since I do shoot digital photos in quantity.
And all my prints had a yellow cast. I tried three different printers, two HPs and one Canon. Yellow cast. I took my stuff into the local Apple store; they suggested I contact AppleCare. I did. I followed all their suggestions. I formatted and reinstalled OS X several times. I updated every program each time. Still yellow prints. I printed about four hundred prints trying various ideas. Still yellow prints. AppleCare gave up; said the problem would have to be solved locally. Local was convinced it was a software problem. They finally became convinced that I was doing something wrong in Aperture, and scheduled me for an hour one-on-one with their Aperture Genius. I had a hard time believing Aperture was the problem, as other programs printed yellow prints when Aperture had not been installed. Whatever. I had had the computer for three months and had not produced one acceptable photo so I was willing to try anything. They wanted to teach on their laptop; I insisted on using my Mac and printer, which we did. The Aperture Genius proceeded to produce a series of awful yellow prints, just like mine. At the end of the allotted hour, she gave up and summoned another Genius. This lady explained that the Mac can produce good prints, but you have to work for them. Turn off on-screen proofing, it will only confuse you. Edit each photo so that it is brilliant, "jumps off the page at you." Nothing like the scene you photographed, nothing like the print that is produced if you put the memory chip directly into the printer.
Then go into the print menu, to the color sliders, and experiment with various settings till you find one that makes your prints look better, and save it. This must be done for each type of photo you take. For landscapes, plus ten in yellow and magenta took away the awful yellow for my setup.
For flesh tones, plus six in yellow and plus five in magenta makes them look almost human.
She said that she had about twenty custom profiles in her Ma.
This is a far cry from what I expected from Mac. I cannot believe that every photographer has to go through this with each print, and that the prints for all of them look so much different from what is shown on the monitor. And, yes, mine is calibrated routinely with a SpyderPro 2.
Welcome to the wonderful world of photoprinting, Mac style.
There is nothing wrong with your printer, whatever it is.



iMac 20 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

iMac 20 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Look on the Aperture Printing Problem list.
The answer is there...