Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/06/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]All, I am having serious problems trying to print to and HP Photosmart C4780. (B&W) Images that are dark and crisp on screen are coming out grey and flat, without sufficient depth of black (Dmax). I have tried printing in greyscale and in colour. I have printed using both Gray 2.2 and SRGB; perceptual on and off. It's running off a PC running PSE over XP. HOwever I have tried printing similar images from Gimp over Linux (Ubuntu) connected to the same printer and the problems are pretty much the same. I checked both the screen against reference charts and it is OK. The papers that I have been trying to use are Ilford Galerie - several kinds - and Harman Gloss FB AI. All produce the same sort of results. Interestingly the results are sometimes better if the image size is reduced. Ilford/Harman don't have a profile for this printer/paper combination. Anyone any thoughts? Peter For reference the photo is here: <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PeterDzwig/album83/album293/GordesSunrise23460022_edited-1.tif.html> (I know its v. high contrast, but there is detail in the shadows that I want. -- =========================================================== Dr Peter Dzwig