Rick - I don't know what settings you're using, but I can tell you the settings that get me good results with PE4 and an R800.
When you go to the print window in PE4, check the box in the lower left corner that says "Show More Options", open the drop down box for "Printer Profile" and select the one that matches the paper you're using. I have limited myself to Epson papers, so I use their canned profiles for matte, glossy, etc. In the drop down box below that select "Relative Colorimetric" Navigate to your printer Properties and look for a box where you can choose whether or not you want to use Image Color Management (will probably be labeled ICM) - choose to not use it. With the R800 there is an "Advanced" box in the lower right of the printer properties window on the "Main" tab - that's where the ICM choice is found for the R800. One other thing - I keep PE4 Color Settings set to ignore color gamut tags such as sRGB and AdobeRGB that are embedded in the file. I know there are others on this list that would consider this heresy, but that's what works best *for me*. I'm happy with the prints I get using this method and so are my customers. YMMV Feel free to contact me off list with any questions. -P Rick Womer wrote: > I've been pretty casual about what little printing > I've done to this point, but now I want things to look > just the way they do on the screen. > > So, I bought a Huey and calibrated the monitor on our > G5 iMac, brought up a couple of photos in PE4 > (highest-quality jpg files), and tried some prints > with our Epson RX500. > > I've diddled with the myriad printing controls > endlessly, but two things keep happening: (1) the > "Preview" doesn't look like the image in PE4; (2) the > print doesn't look like =either= the preview or the > PE4 image. > > Can anyone direct me to some concise instructions for > getting what's on the screen to come out of the > printer? > > Rick > > http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
