Anyone got experience with printing photo with glossy photo paper, using Epson Stylus PHOTO R310? i select quality option ="Photo" and type ='glossy photo paper'. The photo come out with very DARK in color.... my photo not so dark one... So, i go maintainance there clean head... also no use... WHO can help me???? how to set?? is my setting wrongly?

Thanks

Actually what u see in the screen is RGB where the colors is bight and vibrant. That color setting is for onscreen display only. What is printed out is based on CMYK colors, the setting is at default for print media.

The dark looking colors were due to the key color.. aka Black ( refer to the jargon below ). So in future, if you are printing any photos, remember to set your document to cmyk then do your editing. Or, you can set your color mode in the print settings if u want to retain the brightness of RGB.

You can change color mode in your print settings.

Jagron : RGB : Red Green Blue.

CMYK : Cyan Magenta Yellow K = Black


Update : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMYK_color_model might interest you.

This post has been edited by onscreen: Dec 4 2006, 03:45 PM

onscreen, thanks a lot! really help me... now wat i see is wat i print already...

is it all the printer.. when i wanna print... must set to CMYK first?

Ya as recommended by the printing industry and it applies to all color printers. If you read the wikipedia link i attached on my previous post, you will know CMYK is also known as color saving mode when printing.

my cannon printer also have this problem and i only can print colour and cant print black color even i change new cartrige also no use,my fren say say maybe is program problem ,anyone can help

This post has been edited by zac1: Dec 17 2006, 07:39 PM

but mostly for inkjet and home printer using RGB..

only offset and large format inkjet using CMYK..

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so far my epson photo color will be ok after head cleaning..

maybe u need to see all ur printer setting..

Thanks => Great post.

I use printer for 10 years, this is some new knowledge for me LOL...