Match print to screen aarrgghh !

[vale46]

Hi all,

PLEASE can anyone help me ?

I have paintshop pro 6 and photoshop and a canon pixma ip3000

Now, i cant for the life of me get the bloody thing to print a picture exactly how i see it on the monitor.....is this normal ?

I have tried everything, different ink, different paper settings (if i lie to it and tell it i'm using matte or glossy i get different results) i've tried vivd settings etc etc etc !!

All i want to do is print the picture i am looking at on the screen.....is that too much to ask ?

I know there is probably a million parameters but can anyone please offer any advice.

Thanks for reading my rant

Vale

 

[Nodsu]

Uhm.. And what exactly is wrong? The mouse cursor isn't there? The colours are off? The picture is the wrong size? It prints some other picture instead?

 

[vale46]

soz,

prints arent as vibrant, they are too dark, not as colourfull !

I have tried upping the gamma, and colour etc but its just a hit and miss, and its getting expensive wasting glossy photo paper and ink !

 

[Nodsu]

Well.. They will never be as colorful if you have a monitor with a glossy screen and all the "punchy" effects turned on. Paper doesn't glow like computer displays do.

I can't look at your monitor and your prints so I can't really judge how much colour you are missing.

Maybe have one of you photos done in a real photo lab on glossy paper and see how it turns out?

 

[tomrca]

Well.. They will never be as colorful if you have a monitor with a glossy screen and all the "punchy" effects turned on. Paper doesn't glow like computer displays do.

it's the same difference between paper and slides