Color Matching sucks.
Somehow I got all my colors to look great at home off my cheapo Epson R300M, but up here on this phatt 2200, I’m getting GREEN. Maybe it’s got school spirit or something, but I’ve been reduced to doing a ton of test strips. I hope I don’t run out of 8.5×11 paper doing color tests. Also, my contrast is way out of balance as well. When I was doing them at home the darks were dark, but the mediums were nice and visible. Now the mediums are as dark as the darks and details are disappearing. It is my first time printing from this printer, so I should expect a little variance I guess. It just didn’t take nearly this long at home. Thankfully there’s no one standing behind me waiting to use the printer, I have the place pretty much to my self. Two of the other students are here doing other projects, so I pretty much have the room to myself. I would just like to find the magic combination of color settings so that the images look right. Once that happens, I can just go to mass printing them. I just need the image on screen and the printed image to match. Once that happens, I’m golden because I already balanced most of my images last night.
Wish me luck.
Edit: Whilst I was writing this, I finally came across the correct recipe. Now to determine if there is a perceptive difference between a true 192 DPI and an interpolated 350 DPI.
and just for my own edification, the final recipe was Photoshop Decided: SP2200 SemiGloss 2880, Perceptive Color, Black Point Compensation, ICM, No Adjust
