Pro print vs. ink jet print

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Kent McPherson
Jan 9, 2008
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When I print a picture by sending it to a commercial printer, i.e. Walmart or Costco, the print looks almost identical to what I see on my screen. When I print it locally to my own HP Photosmart 8250 photo printer, it has a yellowish cast I guess is the best way to describe it. The color is much different than what I see on the screen and what I get from a commercial print. What do I do to get better local prints? I’m using HP ink and HP photo paper too by the way.
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Joseph Meehan
Jan 9, 2008
"Kent McPherson" wrote in message
When I print a picture by sending it to a commercial printer, i.e. Walmart or Costco, the print looks almost identical to what I see on my screen. When I print it locally to my own HP Photosmart 8250 photo printer, it has a yellowish cast I guess is the best way to describe it. The color is much different than what I see on the screen and what I get from a commercial print. What do I do to get better local prints? I’m using HP ink and HP photo paper too by the way.

Often the printer software will allow for adjusting the printer. I might also suggest that the commercially made print may have been adjusted and not a straight print. You may need to do some adjusting of the images. Your monitor could be off. It may have a software based adjustment as well.

Good Luck

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Joseph Meehan

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Roberto
Jan 9, 2008
Do yourself a favor and Google "Color Management" to get an idea on why this happens. Since you don’t state what software or even what operating system you are using it’s hard to say but you might be double profiling. Basically setting your *color* aware software to print while still maintaining the printer software to also use it’s profile. Like I said, Google it to get a better understanding on how all this works.
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"Kent McPherson" wrote in message
When I print a picture by sending it to a commercial printer, i.e. Walmart or Costco, the print looks almost identical to what I see on my screen. When I print it locally to my own HP Photosmart 8250 photo printer, it has a yellowish cast I guess is the best way to describe it. The color is much different than what I see on the screen and what I get from a commercial print. What do I do to get better local prints? I’m using HP ink and HP photo paper too by the way.
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Bob AZ
Jan 10, 2008
On Jan 9�What do I do to get better local prints? �I’m using HP ink and HP
photo paper too by the way.

Start with a test print. And if appropriate a nozzle check.

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