On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 23:14:08 -0800, Adam McKenty wrote: >I've put some photos together into a calendar (yes, a bit behind schedule), >and I'm getting it printed by someone who runs a local news paper and >offers printing services "on the side." Unfortunately neither I nor the >person doing the printing know much about the complexities of printing >colour images, and so far the test prints have come out looking quite >shoddy. The first one was printed as an RGB PSD placed in an Adobe Indesign >document, and the printout has large areas that are too purple, large areas >that are too green, and is generally higher contrast than the original. We >tried converting the image to CMYK in PS, which resulted in fairly accurate >colour, but muddy and grainy looking printouts.
Hi Adam I've been printing up calendars since late 1999, one year I even did 2 themes. The past couple of years have been done on a HP with little or no effort to adjust colours. Before that we used a Lexmark colour laser and it caused us no end of problem getting it right - I was never really happy with it. I use Word for the calendars and have a table on each page that I know prints to a particular size and I resize the pictures in Photoshop to fit the dimensions at 300 dpi. The pictures are set to the sRGB colour space. I have turned off colour management on the printer driver (for the HP) and the colours come out fine. Some colour lasers aren't really good at printing images. About all I can suggest is a bit of trial and error. Go through the options offered in the print settings and printer preferences and set it all for the best quality. Good luck. Calendars are fun and I now have a following who start making subtle comments about needing a new calendar late in the year. Leon http://www.bluering.org.au http://www.bluering.org.au/leon
