Printing photos
Hello folks, I tried printing some photos for the first time on HP Photo Paper on my HP Deskjet 880C printer a couple of days ago. The photos all turned out with a terrible blue domination and I cannot figure out why. I have an iMac 266 with OSX 10.1.5 It doesn't matter if I print from Photoshop Elements 2 or straight from Preview, the result is the same. Today I installed a new Colour Cartridge in the printer but it hasn't helped. I tried running the Cartridge Cleaner and the Cartridge Alignment facilities from the HP software utility, then did some tests on plain paper, but no change. I have even tried some different settings in Colorsync from System Preferences, but no change. Any suggestions please ... Please Please I want to buy a digital camera, but it's not much use doing that until I know I can print photos ! -- Regards, Stephen Chape
Re: Printing photos
I'm not sure which other HP printers this applies to, but my HP DeskJet 640C has a available a specific photo print cartridge for use when printing photos, as opposed to the standard colour cartridge. The HP website maay have some more info: www.hp.com.au Hope that helps!! Daniel Forsdyke On 03/05/2003 18:08, Stephen Chape [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks, I tried printing some photos for the first time on HP Photo Paper on my HP Deskjet 880C printer a couple of days ago. The photos all turned out with a terrible blue domination and I cannot figure out why. I have an iMac 266 with OSX 10.1.5 It doesn't matter if I print from Photoshop Elements 2 or straight from Preview, the result is the same. Today I installed a new Colour Cartridge in the printer but it hasn't helped. I tried running the Cartridge Cleaner and the Cartridge Alignment facilities from the HP software utility, then did some tests on plain paper, but no change. I have even tried some different settings in Colorsync from System Preferences, but no change. Any suggestions please ... Please Please I want to buy a digital camera, but it's not much use doing that until I know I can print photos !
Re: Printing photos ?
The best way to get good quality printout for photo images is to have the best quality photo to start with and the photos on you CD will not be the best quality you can get. It is a good way to get the photos on your computer but not the best printable quality. You would be better to scan them in yourself with a scanner and the best one being a slide scanner and scan the negatives rather than the photos. Below is the order in which to get the best quality images into you computer and of course the higher the dpi rate of the scanner the better the scanned image will be and the better it will print. Do not forget that the type of printer you have will have some factor in the print quality as well, but the first and best step is to get the best image to print first. 1. scan the negatives with a slide scanner 2. scan the photos with a scanner 3. get photos developed to a CD for use with a computer. Regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 18/7/02 12:24 AM, Stephen Chape [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I made my first attempt to print some photos a couple of days ago and the result was not as good as I guess it could be. However by the time I made a decent improvement I ran out of photo paper. I have an iMac 266 with 288 MB RAM OSX 10.1.5 I use a Nikon F60 SLR camera and post my film to Extrafilm on the east coast for developing. The prints are returned with a CD containing the photos in JPG format in small, medium large (the large being about a megabyte each). I used Appleworks Draw to assemble three 6 x 4 photos on each A4 sheet. I then selected BEST quality and selected the appropriate paper type, in this case premium photo paper. I gradually discovered that by converting the large JPG files to PICT files the quality improved a lot. The JPG prints were very blotchy (especially skin tones). I also tried TIFF which were better but not as good as PICT. My printer is an HP 880C. Is there any more I can do to improve the picture quality without diving into expensive software purchases. ? Also any recommendations for paper type would be appreciated.
Printing photos ?
Hi folks, I made my first attempt to print some photos a couple of days ago and the result was not as good as I guess it could be. However by the time I made a decent improvement I ran out of photo paper. I have an iMac 266 with 288 MB RAM OSX 10.1.5 I use a Nikon F60 SLR camera and post my film to Extrafilm on the east coast for developing. The prints are returned with a CD containing the photos in JPG format in small, medium large (the large being about a megabyte each). I used Appleworks Draw to assemble three 6 x 4 photos on each A4 sheet. I then selected BEST quality and selected the appropriate paper type, in this case premium photo paper. I gradually discovered that by converting the large JPG files to PICT files the quality improved a lot. The JPG prints were very blotchy (especially skin tones). I also tried TIFF which were better but not as good as PICT. My printer is an HP 880C. Is there any more I can do to improve the picture quality without diving into expensive software purchases. ? Also any recommendations for paper type would be appreciated. -- Regards, Stephen Chape
