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True Color Of Images Not Printing


When I look at the photos on my camera viewer the color looks good. When I transfer to my computer and view the image the color looks good. When I print the picture, the color looks toned down or flat and not the right colors. I didn't have this problem with the 3.2 megapixel camera I had before. I using a higher megapixel camera now more than twice what I had before. I usually shoot in the 12M range. The printer I have is a 600 DPI. Do I need to get a better printer?


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March 14, 2005

 

Chris J. Browne
  Color Printer Profiles! You need to get the right color profiles to translate the red on your screen to the same shade of red on relective paper.

Send one digital file to an online photographic company and ask them to apply NO CORRECTIONS. If they are using a good Noritsu 3212 DLS or like the print will be realistically printed as the pixels indicate. There needs to be a translation between realworld red, screen red, and printed red. I wouldn't trust the screen in the camera. . .As for a better printer. . .no, my company uses the Noritsu 3212 DLS photographic printer and it prints at 300 dpi! Sounds terrible if you were using a laserprinter but color photographic printing is different when using silver based imagery. But test your images with a standard first, the revisit your printer and profiling it.


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