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Color matching to HP color laserjet

Forum|Forum|13 years ago
April 19, 2012
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Is there any hope to make this happen? I've tried every combination of print settings but nothing comes close to the proper colors.

Here is my setup:

OS 10.6.8 (also gave it a try on 10.7.3 with same results)

latest HP drivers from Apple

Indesign CS5

custom cmyk profile that works great with our commercial printers

cmyk print project

HP CP5225dn color laserjet

Before we were printing to an expensive Minolta color copier/all-in-one with an optional print server attached that produced relatively good color results. The new HP output is very poor, the blacks are way too heavy and losing detail in anything even a little dark, dark reds are blown out to neon red, browns are amped up to neon red and yellow, subtle purples are neon cyan.

I've tried the suggestions from HP to let the printer handle color managment in the printer options setup, and every combination of setting in the Indesign print settings. They all print the exact same results, with the only variation being extremely dark or just very dark.

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adamparker1

Participant

Let us start by installing the output tray

Place the printer on the output tray and you can start aligning all the corners of the printer rear
You can also pull the tab and the initial extension peels out
Now you have to open the input extension of the tray’s output
After this, close down the output tray
Open the package wrap to unveil and take away the printer as well
Then you are required to place the wrap and place the device in a right position

Just visit our blog HP Tango Terra Printer Setup or call our support number +1-800-237-0201

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Matt Schroeder

Participant

Evil,

This may be two years in the answering, but like you, I have run into the same problem with the HP CP5225 printer. By default it just seems to want to drop out all (or mostly all) the yellow from images. I just invested in a Colormunki Photo (~$500) and used that spectrophotometer to generate a custom color profile for the printer--and it actually WORKS! I get near-perfect color now from the printer that matches my screen.

I've made it available to download at the link below:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5qvilx8r1ue0n4x/AADxrN8fCm1i2gijMOf8hLC8a?dl=0

Install it to your computer and specify it as your CMYK profile when printing from your app.

Hope this helps!

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ctmayer

Participant

Do you have an updated dropbox link for your color profile?

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TrishMeyer99

Known Participant

I noticed you just posted this yesterday! I'm also having issues with HP 5225, where it will not print purple (always ends up blue) although reds print a bit more magenta.

I never thought to use the ColorMunki profiler we use on our Epson printers. I will give it a go and post our profile, but I would not be surprised it each printer needs a slightly different profile (that's why ColorMunki is so useful).

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Manish-Sharma

Inspiring

How does the PDF comes out for the same document....is there color difference in it as well?

If in PDF the color are proper then how is the output when you print the PDF?

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Evil_LairAuthor

Participating Frequently

Creating a pdf and printing from Acrobat results in the same colors and darkness.

For this test I am printing something that has already been commerically printed, which also closely matches what I have on my calibrated monitor.

Peter Spier

Community Expert

Doing that displays the colors much closer to what is printing out, however it displays even brighter than my own profile. So the ink levels or brightness are displaying much brighter especially in darker areas on screen vs printed output where it all just turns completely black.

For example an area of C:65 M:58 Y:52 K:33 just comes out black on the printer.

It's not unusual for a monitor to show dark areas brighter than the print (I had a terrible time with this last summer on a project). You are, after all, looking at transmitted light vs. reflected light.

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Anonymous

You will most likely find that when printing to a desktop printer it is best to print in RGB... change your workspace to RGB or make sure it uses the RGB profile.

Test it by creating a document with 4 squares coloured in CMYK... then compare the print to the actually colours rather than comparing them to your screen.

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