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ching
04-05-2008, 05:28 PM
Hello printertechs community
I am in great need of your specialist knowledge in the area of printers.
The job of printing pictures is a lot more complicated than I could have imagined. I have discovered through research that I have a calibration problem of the colour and/or brightness between printer and monitor. Now I could calibrate the screen some way as I have read but that doesn't seem in any way a solution to me. The outcome would be that I had an altered screen so that normal pictures look unnatural. I know pictures that I have taken with a camera are accurate. Displayed on an adjusted monitor would change them. I am certain that calibration misses the issue because bypassing the computer and putting a memory card into the printer returns true to life print outs showing that the computer is tampering with the image somewhere along the line of asking it to print. I know it's not technically put but I hope you can undestand what I'm getting at. Could you tell me how I can take a picture, upload the picture and print the picture without needing to edit the picture to acquire accurate results?

Any help is much appreciated

Manuals
04-05-2008, 06:10 PM
Don 't you think it 'might' help if you mentioned what printer you're talking about?

Paul @justmanuals.com

ching
04-05-2008, 06:55 PM
epson photo stylus r200 and r300
I didn't think it was important as it's not the printer that is the problem, it's a computer setting

ptjeff1
04-06-2008, 03:55 PM
Do a google search for Gretag Macbeth. They make a number of calibration devices. I use the Eye-One on my monitors and they have solutions for printing as well. Not cheap, but if you want accuracy you will have to pay.