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savesheep
Joined: 18 Jul 2009
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 Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 2:44 pm Post subject: What Photoshop Prints is Different Than What My Monitor Show |
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Hello!
I am using Photoshop CS4 and I have a Canon Pixma MP160 printer. I go through a company, GotPrint.com, to print all my brochures and business cards but it seems what I send them is never what actually prints out. I understand that LCD monitors show a different display, being RGB instead of CMYK?? but how do I match it close enough? I have been trying to print out my new brochure on my printer at home until I get it to print the colors I want - but it's a huge hassle & a major ink cost changing all the colors (mostly brown for some reason) to look good printed even though it looks terrible in photoshop.
I've tried setting it in the print window to Photoshop Manages Color instead of printer. In the profile drop down I was told to select one with my printer name in it instead of working CMYK profile. But I have about 10 different ones and none of them say CMYK or anything special. Can anybody point me in the right direction to learn the best way to do this?
Should I use InDesign instead?
Thank you!!! |
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Rainiero
Joined: 16 May 2009
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| Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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Use CMYK colors, save your work as a JPG then print it. (Best way to do it)
CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key[black] ) are the colors the printer uses to make all the other colors. JPG is the easiest format to print, just make sure you select the size properly.
Also, if you have your works in RGB and you change them to CMYK you'll see the color difference.
If you don't want to waste a lot of money you can always print a smaller version of your project instead of the whole thing, that way you'll have a preview of what would be printed.
Hope it helped. |
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savesheep
Joined: 18 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you for the reply!
Are you saying Photoshop is not good to print from? I am also aware that JPG uses compression so image quality is hindered. If I export to tiff or png i still rather need photoshop to print the image...
I guess what I'm wondering is what is the best way to print via photoshop?
Thanks! |
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Rainiero
Joined: 16 May 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:16 am Post subject: |
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Oh...I can't help you with that... but why do you need to print it in PS?
TIff is good (and really heavy) A great thing about this format is that it keeps your image Layered.
Also, you don't set the Color Mode (CMYK, RGB, Grayscale) in the printer, you do it to the image and then print it as a CMYK. |
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