I am having the same problem with a new HP 6968 printer. What is very frustrating about this printer is that there is no "Color Management" option on the printer's own menu, which you reach by pressing the "Setup" button on the Illustrator Print menu. Under the Preferences button on the printer's own menu, the only tabs available are Printing Shortcuts, Paper/Quality (for paper size, source, type, borderless printer on/off, print quality, or print in grayscale), Layout, and Advanced (select HP Real Life Technologies, reverse page order, print in max DPI, print odd or even only). When you go to Windows settings and find the HP 6968 printer and click on Printer Properties, there is a Color Management tab. The default options are shown in the screenshot below: Below are all of the device profiles that are available. Unfortunately, I have no idea which one to use and the default choice does not give good results: I've also noticed that I get better results printing on this printer from my old Photoshop Elements 11 program. A document in the RGB color mode (only choices available are RGB, bitmap and grayscale) in that program prints with colors that more closely match the screen colors (they aren't perfect, but they are better than from Illustrator). I have the Color Settings in that program set to "Always Optimize Colors for Computer Screens" and under the print menu "more options," I use these options: Color Handling: Printer Manages Colors Printer Profile: Adobe RGB (1998) Rendering Intent: Relative Colorimetric When I print from Illustrator, all the colors seem to have too much yellow in them. I've checked the print cartridges, and they are all at about 80% (magenta, cyan, yellow, and black). Does anyone have any suggestions on how to resolve this problem?
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