Dear Mac user-friends,
I would like to ask you for a tip regarding my printer, a EPSON STYLUS C86. The problem is, that I am discontent with most of my prints - even if I use good quality paper such as glossy photo paper or matte heavyweight paper. Mostly, the darks turn out to be too rich and the colors almost too colorful. I know that most of the people printing out their photos at home do like that fact, that their pictures come out extra-contrasty and super coloful. This is not the case for me, printing illustrations with a very sensitive color scale.
I tried to change the color profiles in the color settings of my Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign applications but doing so, I am afraid that I will mess with my prints even more. And I don't like to select settings randomly, without really knowing what I am exactly doing.
Is there somebody out there who has dealt with similar or same printing issues?
What else could I do except from changing printer settings such as "normal", "fine" or "best photo" (-quality). Or does my problem have more to do with a wrong screen calibration?
(I am working on an I Mac, G5, OSX 10.3.8)
I am more than looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks for your time!
Take care,
Teester
I would like to ask you for a tip regarding my printer, a EPSON STYLUS C86. The problem is, that I am discontent with most of my prints - even if I use good quality paper such as glossy photo paper or matte heavyweight paper. Mostly, the darks turn out to be too rich and the colors almost too colorful. I know that most of the people printing out their photos at home do like that fact, that their pictures come out extra-contrasty and super coloful. This is not the case for me, printing illustrations with a very sensitive color scale.
I tried to change the color profiles in the color settings of my Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign applications but doing so, I am afraid that I will mess with my prints even more. And I don't like to select settings randomly, without really knowing what I am exactly doing.
Is there somebody out there who has dealt with similar or same printing issues?
What else could I do except from changing printer settings such as "normal", "fine" or "best photo" (-quality). Or does my problem have more to do with a wrong screen calibration?
(I am working on an I Mac, G5, OSX 10.3.8)
I am more than looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks for your time!
Take care,
Teester