[Gimp-user] Gimp Printouts

2009-04-02 Thread Walter S.
Hi there. Thanks for allowing me to join this forum. I have been using Gimp for some time, but now that I have got as far as printing out some of my work I have come across a snag. I could not understand why the print was so much darker than the image on the monitor. Having scanned the help files

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp Printouts

2009-04-02 Thread Olivier Lecarme
Walter S. for...@gimpusers.com wrote: Hi there. Thanks for allowing me to join this forum. I have been using Gimp for some time, but now that I have got as far as printing out some of my work I have come across a snag. I could not understand why the print was so much darker than the image on

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp Printouts

2009-04-02 Thread Jay Smith
Walter, There are multiple issues involved. For example: - Since you did not mention anything about calibration, consider that the scanner, the monitor, and the printer are three different devices, each of which has to be properly calibrated (starting at the beginning with the scanner, then the

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp Printouts

2009-04-02 Thread Hedley Finger
Walter S. wrote: I could not understand why the print was so much darker than the image on the monitor. Having scanned the help files in Gimp, I find the information, that this is because the monitor is showing the image in RGB,but the actual printout is in CMYK. I am wrestling with the logic

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp Printouts

2009-04-02 Thread Chris Mohler
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Walter S. for...@gimpusers.com wrote: Hi there. Thanks for allowing me to join this forum. I have been using Gimp for some time, but now that I have got as far as printing out some of my work I have come across a snag. I could not understand why the print was