Turning off color management makes no difference.  The printouts from Scribus 
come out washed out no matter what.

Terry Todd

On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:07:32PM -0700, darryl wrote:
> Hi Terry,
> 
> It's likely that your printers, certainly the HP (if it's an inkjet), are 
> designed as RGB printers.  If you're seeing your images look a little washed 
> out on the screen as well, it's likely because you have colour management 
> turned on. Rather than mucking with the settings, turn it off entirely by 
> deselecting that main checkbox on the color management document setup page.
> 
> The reason the pdf works is that the default pdf export is in RGB colour 
> space.
> 
> The whole colour management thing is still a third water mystery to me. I 
> keep thinking I should be able to work in RGB easily with the right 
> management setting, but I haven't figured it out yet.  I haven't used Scribus 
> to go to a commercial, offset printer yet, so it's all been fine when I turn 
> colour management off.  I know, this doesn't sound like the wise answer, but 
> it's been functional so far.
> 
> darryl
> 
> 
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