[Leica] Printing Question

[kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)]

On 6/2/2010 9:39 AM, Peter Dzwig wrote:
> 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.
>    
Peter,

Is that the HP all-in-one printer (fax, copier, printer) that uses two 
cartridges?  If so it was probably never intended for a photo print of 
the quality you want.  Just a guess.

Ken Carney