Frank Pieczynski wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Gregory Pittman<gregp_ky at yahoo.com> wrote: >> Look at the Color tab in PDF Export that says, "Output intended for: " where >> your choices are Screen/Web or Printer. >> In many cases, you will want to use Screen/Web. The Printer setting is for >> when you send to a commercial printer. > > Hi Greg, you made my day! > > There was already the setting "Screen/Web", but that inspired me to > try a PDF export and print that file instead from scribus directly. So > I exported the file with color management 'off', looks ok in kpdf. >>From there I started the print - the result looks great! From colors > comparable to the good result of kword. > So I think the problem is related in the scribus - cups interaction or > somewhere in that corner. > > But I have now problem to export before printing into a PDF so for me > the issue is solved.
Sounds like the printer/driver combination is expecting RGB not CMYK. Check all your profiles are setup correctly, and if not, just use RGB (Screen/Web). This is not a fault of Scribus, just different printers expect different inputs. Craig
