Prints Blue on all printers form Adobe Elements but ok from WIN

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Steven_George
Jan 11, 2004
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I have tried to get good prints from Adobe to no avail. I have the same trouble on both my printers (Epson 2200 and HP Deskjet 995c). The same files print fine from MS Word, Publisher, Windows XP. The only print that seems ok is when I go to Image, Mode, and select Grayscale. The print looses the blue and prints fine in Black and White. What is going on? I think that I’ve looked in every little hole for the problem but have not found out what it is. Thanks for all the help that I can get.
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brent_bertram
Jan 11, 2004
Steven,
Elements is the only "color managed" application on your list. That probably means that your display is not accurately calibrated and profiled, using the Adobe Gamma Utility ( or another such utility )
<http://www.computer-darkroom.com/ps7-colour/ps7_2.htm> . Elements and Photoshop must have an accurated profile to correctly interpret the colors and translate them for printing or display.
Ian Lyons Image Flow < http://www.btinternet.com/~ian.lyons/ps7-colour/ps7_color.gi f>

If you have an LCD display, then check this techdoc out, <http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/1403e.htm> . Ian Lyons uses the 2200 printer settings in some of his tutorials, one of which follows:

< http://www.computer-darkroom.com/ps7_print/ps7_print_mac_2.h tm> .

Dig around in there, but definitely, work on the display profile .
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Steven_George
Jan 13, 2004
I appreciate your help. The color cast did improve but is still not perfect when printing from Adobe Photoshop Elements. Printing from Windows programs is still better. I do not know if it matters but I am now using a Sony Trinitron HMD-A440 monitor and a NVIDIA GeForce 4 Ti 4400 board. The change (by itself) made no difference in the color cast of the prints on both printers and I believe that I have set it up and balanced it correctly.
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brent_bertram
Jan 14, 2004
Steven,
Are you using Print Preview to print your images? If so, what is your Output space profile, and what is "checked " in your Epson advanced driver settings ?

🙂

Brent
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Dawn_E._Thompson
Jan 15, 2004
This sounds like the same problem that I am having except, my photos are coming out with a RED cast. I have no problems printing from any other program – just Elements.

Dawn
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Beth_Haney
Jan 15, 2004
Have either of you tried downloading the free Adobe plugin "Ignore EXIF"? The redness of Dawn’s photos, in particular, are making me think that might help. Here again, it’s an issue of Elements’ color management capabilities. Other programs probably ignore the EXIF information, and Elements doesn’t.
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Dawn_E._Thompson
Jan 15, 2004
I’ll go look for that and see what happens.

Thanks,
Dawn
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Chris_Rankin
Jan 15, 2004
There may be an issue with the NVIDIA card also. I’ve got similar problems with Gamma and printing (have the NVIDIA card) and I seem to remember a thread from a few months ago that discussed the NVIDIA card and some issues with Adobe.

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Jodi_Frye
Jan 15, 2004
running 16MB nVidia™ Vanta Graphics card here….nothing extravagant… without problems.
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Chuck_Snyder
Jan 15, 2004
nVidia makes a lot of different cards and drivers. I have one of their cheapies, and when I tried to use a later version of the driver, it was a disaster. I guess there’s a science – or maybe an art – to buying video cards…

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