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this one on the left is yours -which turned out black compared to mine -that was with the profile you made a while back.
i put the profile to photo print and ALL colour enhancements ON,and it came out even better/blacker.

hard to capture right in this light i have paul

http://i1264.photobucket.com/albums/jj487/kustomde/DSCF1412_zps64c4ff36.jpg

so tell me doc - is it bad ? - do i have to have it healed ?.....tell me straight - i can take it

or was the original pic just crap ?

and how you get the black - black ? or did you get another pic ?

found out the problem with colours !

photoshop had switched the printer settings i had saved to "printer controls colour" - instead of "photoshop controls colour" :rolleyes:

this has never happened before - it has now, and i will be looking for it again in the future. - :rolleyes:

I haven't read all of the answers but this was a classic problem with litho printing. Blacks can sometimes look dull depending on the type of paper. There is a way of getting round this called a "shiner". A shiner is a 20% minimum cyan layer underneath the black. It gives it a rich look. You can up the cyan even higher. Works on litho, whether it would work on sublimation I don't know.

You would need to change the trapping on your software so the black overprinted the blue, not knock it out.

Going back to my old typesetting days and litho printing, have you tried adding some Cyan to the black, about 20%? That is known as a rich black. Blacks look grubby by comparison. Make up a new colour, and make it a mix of Black and 20% Cyan and use that instead of the black. Should make a big difference.

this is a good post to learn from, all it takes is one setting to knock out and your colours go to pot! I had this problems with Ricoh and the reds coming out pink....turns out my settings werent implemented properly!

Trapping is a tricky thing which most people don't know about. Modern software tends to work out trapping automatically, but with things like shiners, it's a manual change needed. Designers are a nightmare when it comes to trapping. If it looks good on screen they assume it will look good in print. The Ebay logo is a classic example of trapping changed on purpose.