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Holzpolz
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April 13, 2020
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Printing from photoshop to Epson XP 960

  • April 13, 2020
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Hi, I'm not sure if anyone can help..... I am having trouble with printing from photoshop. I have a file set up as my colour palette and all colours have a RGB references, I have printed this file as a hard copy so I know my printer can print these colour using these RGBs. How ever when I then started to use these colour (rgb codes) in designs and print them out the colour shift! therefore my design collection doesn't sit together! I'm also have the problem where the same design is printed at A4 then printed again at A5 I get totally different colour output. I understand I need to try and collaborate my screen use the right colour profile etc. But I can't  understand why when I've set the RGB and know I like theses colours printed why the hell they shift from design to design or size to size. Surely if your RGB colour codes are the same they should print the same? Have I got a setting wrong? Like relative colourmatic or letting photoshop/printer describe the colour output. Are these settings allowing things to change as there is perhaps more of one colour they the other? But then that doesn't explain the colour differences in the same file printed at A5 and A4. 

help!!!!! 

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Mylenium
Mylenium
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April 13, 2020

Start by disabling automatic white balance or any such settings in your printer driver and/ or enforce exact colors instead of relative color rendering. The colors differ because the driver tries to perceptively match the visual appearance and combined with the fact that it still essentially sends a full A4 page to the printer with lots of whitespace padding added around your smaller formats, this can hugely affect how the halftone pattern is generated, resulting in unpredicatble color shifts.

 

Mylenium

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HolzpolzAuthor
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April 13, 2020

Hi Mylenium,

 

thank for your help! That makes a lot of sense! Basically your turning of the setting to allow the printer to select other colour? I have tried to do what you suggested but I'm not sure if I have done it correctly (was abit it unsure how to access my printer drivers?) I have attached some images to show what I have done, is this correct? I have opened my printer settings and under colour correction I have clicked custom. then I selected no colour adjustments, Is this what you meant? I couldn't see anything about disabling automatic white balance or enforcing exact colours. 

would anything need to be selected in photoshop as well, under my colour profile when I print?  I have it sent to let printer select colours and relative colourmatic. I've tried some of the other settings but nothing's here seems to help with my problem of colour shifting. 

thank you so much for your help, I've just been having a nightmare trying to print a range of designs to seat in the same colour palette. 

kindest regards

 

hollie 

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