On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 9:50 PM, David Woodfall wrote: > Hi, I've been printing out a lot of black and white photos on photo > paper on a HP Photosmart 7510e. > > The printouts are very dark so I've had to boost the brightness levels > in GIMP prior to printing. The problem is that this takes extra time > and I also don't want to save these levels in the XCF file. I would > say that (going by the Gamma Display Filter) the printouts are around > 40% of the brightness they ought to be. > > My question is, does anyone else have this problem and what can be > done about it? I've googled for an .ICC for my printer but it hasn't > really helped, unless I'm setting it wrong.
Googling for arbitrary ICC profiles isn't such a great idea. Color reproduction doesn't depend on just the printer. It's a combination of printer, inks and paper. I wouldn't print from GIMP either. Try PhotoPrint: http://www.blackfiveimaging.co.uk/index.php?article=02Software%2F01PhotoPrint Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
