Printing--AAARGH!

2006-10-11 Thread Rick Womer
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

Re: Printing--AAARGH!--P.S.

2006-10-11 Thread Rick Womer
P.S. A clarification: I've been printing scanned slides for years with no problem. Printing images from the ist D is proving frustrating, though. Rick --- Rick Womer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been pretty casual about what little printing I've done to this point, but now I want things to

Re: Printing--AAARGH!

2006-10-11 Thread Paul Sorenson
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

Re: Printing--AAARGH!

2006-10-11 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
I don't know how good the Huey is. I wasn't particularly impressed when my friend Paul used it to do calibration on his systems last week. Very few useful options. I use the Gretag-Macbeth Eye One Display 2 which allows me to set up exactly the screen calibration I want (5500K white point,

Re: Printing--AAARGH!

2006-10-11 Thread David J Brooks
Rick, for what its worth. I gave up printing from EL3. I would only use EL 3 for nef and pef conversions, then reopen in PS6, that is until i stumbled upon PSCS. I could never get the colours to look anything close to the monitor, on the print outs. In my PS6 and CS they are as close as

Re: Printing--AAARGH!

2006-10-11 Thread Rick Womer
Thanks for the replies! At this point the soonest I'll be able to try the suggestions is Sunday (choir rehearsal, a wedding rehearsal dinner, and a wedding occupying evenings between now and then). Dave, the strange thing is that printing slide scans hasn't been a problem. I scan them as TIFFs,