Ongoing Issue Printing Photos

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October 30, 2024
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Ive been a week trying different settings. I just cant get a decent print from my HP laserjet. I dont think the printer is the issue, since both printers are outputting the same bad pictures.

anyone got advice?

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NB, colourmanagement

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@bobbeev68944634 As @D Fosse has suggested try find a profile for your media and printer, if not you should try "printer manages color" in Photoshop and be sure to select the right media in "printer settings"

Wide Gamut RGB is definitely not a printer profile - you'll get awful results telling Photoshop that this is the ICC profile of your printer & media

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I should have mentioned that the wide gamut was just an experiment. I had no HP printer profile to go to. So I reinstalled the printer and now see that option. Now nothing will print out. It keeps showing error in the Q but not on the printer. What did I do wrong?

D Fosse

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Hold the spacebar when you click "Print". This deletes all print metadata stored in the file, and should give you a fresh start with that file.

Generally, whenever icc profiles are involved, there's no room for experimenting. You need to use the correct profile.

Icc profiles don't actually do anything, they are just maps describing how any given color space behaves, whether it's a synthetic color space like sRGB or Adobe RGB, or a physical device color space like a monitor or printer. It's then down to the application (Photoshop) to recalculate - remap - the numbers in the file according to this profile.

In other words, the map has to correspond to the actual terrain.

D Fosse

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Wide Gamut RGB is not a printer profile. It is guaranteed to produce very wrong results.

Until you can find the correct profile for your printer/paper/ink - it should normally be installed with the printer driver, if the printer model supports icc profiles at all - use "Printer Manages Color" instead of "Photoshop Manages Color".

You still have to choose the right media type (paper) in the printer driver.

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