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If I print a picture from iphoto it comes out great on my Canon MP210 printer. If I print exact same picture from aperture it turns out really light and gray colored. Awful. I have the recommended settings that aperture says I should set printer at, but no luck. Any suggestions! It is a pain to move pictures back to iphoto everytime I want to print something. Thanks!

I opened aperture and opened the Help at the top...typed in Print...I then moved curser over the Proofing Profile and immediately that opened up a column on the left side of my computer with a big arrow that pointed to the correct setting to use for my printer! So my pictures are printing in correct color now....however, it seems like I tried this the first day, one picture printed in color, and an hour later, even with correct setting, the rest were printing really light. so I gave up and went on this forum for help. Yesterday, I thought I would check setting again, and then printed out five pictures and they were great! So not sure what actually is going on, but hopefully today I will keep printing in color! Good luck!

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