bad colour reproduction

[decarbon8]

Can anyone shed any light onto what on earth is going on,

The print and the end result


What it should look like


I've been struggling with this for over a week now, I got Paul to do me an icc profile but still having major colour reproduction issues the end result is nothing like the image displayed in photoshop, even when I think the print looks promising after pressing it, it comes out completely different as per examples above.

I've wasted alot of time, money, paper and ink trying to rectify the problem, I've got icm turned off in print settings and pauls profile set with perceptual intent and photoshop to manage colours but everything still seems way off.

Any ideas as to whats going on as I'm starting to lose interest very quickly now...

[Paul]

Your charts wasnt print corectly? This may be one option. Whats the problem with colors? Can you describe please? Darker? Lighter? Just all wrong?

[decarbon8]

Hi Paul
Tried to send you pm but your inbox was full, I printed charts using adobe utility and print settings were set to icm no colour management as instructed to.

If I print one of the colour charts with new profile now the colours are a fair bit darker, I just cant print anything with true colour match.

here are all of my settings if that is of any help in getting to the root.

printer settings


photoshop colour presets


Photoshop print settings


This is how the colour chart is printing with the new profile


I dont know whether this will give any indication of what is going on but I have tried all sorts to no avail but with these settings its pretty much the same as using the std epson profile to print so something is a miss somewhere.

[Paul]

i am not sure why you trying to print charts with icc now. it won't work. is unlikely to have all those sample as on screen now, only coz you have icc...
go and print normal photograph now and have a look.

[decarbon8]

I did it as a test as I had a chart printed from my other printer with std inks to give a comparisson, at this stage I'm trying everything.

Its the same story with photographs the monitor displays the right colours then when you go into print preview it looks completely different the print comes out different again, then pressed comes different again.

I tried a carbon fibre pattern, didn't end up printing as the print preview looked very faded and dull

Do my settings look correct in the 3 images posted above? that is the first thing to confirm then work from there.

[Paul]

it does look correct but more important is the way you had it all set hen printing charts. ONE error there and icc goes out the window.

[pisquee]

What monitor have you got?
Is it calibrated?

[decarbon8]

Thought they were correct

When I printed the charts I printed through the adobe utility and had already set the printer settings and saved them as subli which are the same as the first settings image above.

I have just printed a sunset over santa pod which hasn't come out too bad.


But the one I really need to do is this


but as pictured in my first post its coming out quite a lot different and my customer namely my sister is so fecking pedantic it has to be perfect

[pisquee]

Are the colours in the rose design showing as out of gamut in soft proof mode in Photoshop?

[pisquee]

Does your sister work for Clarke and Clarke?