Photos print dark

Photos on my HP Photosmart 8250 print too darkly. The display on my Gateway NV53A is calibrated correctly. I can pull up a scanned photo and it matches exactly. A print will be several shades darker.

Your printer driver may have color management options:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00294120&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=entake a look at thi
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Hmm lots of stuff could come into play here.
Are you printing a jpg?
What program are you using to print?
Does it look fine on screen?
What are your print/color settings when the print dialouge comes up?

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Hi
I use Pagemaker 7.0 to make greeting cards.
Previously I've printed these cards on an Epson Photo Stylus 820 inkjet printer and have had very minor differences in the colour or b&w quality from PhotoShop to PageMaker.Usually I have to adjust the contrast less than 10%.
I now use an Epson R2400 printer, both the colour & b&w are much darker and the colour is off. When I print the same images in PhotoShop I get very little variation from what I see on my monitor
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My photos appear bright on screen but when printed out, are always darker. Any answers?

What operating system? What color management settings? Is your monitor calibrated? What program are you using to print? What are the print settings? Are you doing color management in both the application and the printer driver? (Should do one or the other, not both).
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Bob Headrick, Microsoft MVP Printing/Imaging
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HP z6100 Photo prints are too dark and magenta density is too high, etc...

Hi,
Here's the problem. I am having digital portrait photos printed at 20" by 26" in. for wall displays on an HP Z6100 designjet using universal adhesive vinyl. The test prints came back dark and with strongly pronounced magenta and red in the skin tones. I have a few questions that I hope you can help me with:
1. Is universal vinyl really the best print medium for this or would some photographic paper like luster or matte yield better results?
2. I am not in control of the printing process itself, but would providing the ICC profile for the printer/paper combination make a difference in correcting this issue?
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Hello Troy-B
The product you have is a commercial printer. I suggest posting in the HP Business Support forum for a better chance at finding a solution.
You may find the Commercial Designjet board here.
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Printers-Designjet-Large-Format/bd-p/bsc-414
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Epson R300 prints photos very dark and oversaturated

My Epson R300 recently began printing photos much darker and heavily saturated relative to what I see on my monitor. It seems to print ok directly from a CompactFlash. Photos I printed in the past no longer print good. I tried different programs (iPhoto and Photoshop) and print settings. I replaced all cartridges and reset the driver using Print Setup Utility. Any idea what I can try? Thanks.

Have you checked that the ColorSync profiles are OK,
and have not been changed? Use the ColorSync Utility
to check them.
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Prints too dark in elements, ok in easy photo print

Hi,
I have been treading around trying to find an answer to my question.
I´m using Epson PX720WD and Photoshop elements 10.
When I´m printing with the correct paper settings "premium glossy photo" in elements, my prints gets too dark. If I print them on normal paper and choose "plain paper" they seem better. And they are "perfect" if I print them in easy photo print - Epsons software.
I read that I have to calibrate my screen and all, but I edit my pictures in elements, save them and open in easy photo print they are ok. There must be a way around, that I don´t have to calibrate my screen.
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Btw, I´m completly new to this, so please don´t use too complicated words:)
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I found something that helped, I let the printer control the colors, and the pictures turned out like I wanted them.
I found help in this document:
http://files.support.epson.com/pdf/r2880_/r2880_mc.pdf

TS3147 Photos print very dark on HP1025 LaserJet, and solutions?

Photos print very dark on HP1025 LaserJet color printer. I have installed and reinstalled software several times, both from CD and HP site.
Asides from going into PhotoShop and manually manipulating each color photo, is there something simpler to correct this problem?
I have read similar comments on other boards, and have not found a solution. Is this just the nature of the beast for the HP1025 for Mac?

What system and iPhoto versions are you running? What type of Mac do you have? Have you tried calibrating the screen in the System/Display/Color preference pane.
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Why do my photos print so dark on my 7510

My first 6 or so photos printed beautifully, but now they are much darker than the originals. I can't find anything in the printer's settings to brighten them. Anyone know how to fix ?

I had that same problem and I think I found 2 solutions. I think the second solution is a better option.
First Solution:
I found that if I wanted to adjust the brightness of the photo, I put my photos onto a camera memory card and slide it into the SD drive (front left bottom corner) of the printer.
Then click on photos --> view print --> memory card --> select the photo you want to print --> edit --> adjust brightness
You can also find the instructions to the darkness at this link
http://www.hp.com/united-states/consumer/digital_photography/edit_restore_photos/tips/adjust_brightn...
However, the photo that came out was better but the color was faded. The second solution should fix this problem.
Second Solution
At the edit photo menu (same place as where you want to adjust brightness of the photo), I turned the automatic retouching off and did not change the brightness.
The photo that came out pretty good.
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Printing with the same profile, same intent, same computer, same printer. PS and LR do the color management and the printer doesn't.
At some point with CS3, PS started printing dark. This has carried over to CS4. Lightroom printing is fine.
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Hi DYP,
I apologize if people thought I was making political or some other kind of statement. Yes, help is what I'm after.
OS: 10.5.5
Printer: Epson 2200
Driver: 3.09 (found that in /Library/Printer/EPSON/InkjetPrinter/SP2200.plugin)
LR 2.2: in the Print Setting, I'm using No Color Management and in the Print Job panel Color Management is set to an appropriate profile from Ilford matching the paper, inkset, and printer, Rendering Intent is Relative.
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Blue shade on photo prints

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However, after replacing HP blue and magenta ink units, recently (old ones were empty), the following problem occurs:
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A light grey shade on a white picture turns into a bluish shade in stead of grey.
White remains white, and other colors seem correct too, though.
Initially it looks like a wrong white balance, but it is not.
Checked this on several monitors, and different PC's and prints at a photo service.
I print on HP photo paper (premium and everyday glossy).
I use Photoshop Elements 10.
I bought new HP ink cartridges again, but the problem remains.
I tried to figure out many settings, maybe I did something wrong, but could not find anything wrong.
I tried to bypass the problem for urgent prints by strongly reducing blue with Photoshop Elements 10, then blue disappears in real blue sections, but the blue haze problem remains.
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Try printing a diagnostic page as shown in Solution Six in this document.
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Officejet Pro 8625 Photo print colors not matching monitor!

I just purchased this Officejet Pro 8625 yesterday and while I love many of it's features, I noticed that when printing photos the prints come out very dark and even a bit 'muddy" ie they not only do not match what I see on my Samsung monitor, but they are not really even close. I have used an HP officejet 7310xi for many years...and photos printed from that have been nearly always true to the original photo files/monitor appearance.
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The tech and I did download the most recent drivers/software from the HP website as the software on the included cd was actually not the most recent.
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My suggestion about using the onboard USB is to rule out both the USB & WiFi ports.
If printing from the 8625 USB port produces the same results then you may have a defective printer.
Have you also tried printing a sample image that is not yours? (using the O/S image program)
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Why does Photoshop Elements 10 print dark and red, and not match the computer screen?

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If you are using Photoshop Elements Editor for printing then make sure you have handled the color management of PSE correctly.
There are two different scenario available in PSE to handle color management.
Scenario 1 (When printer manages color). If you're known and familiar to your printer profile, the type of paper you are using and if you have any other customization done for your printer profile then in this case please select Printer Manages Color in Color Handling drop down under color management of PSE.
To achieve this, follow these following steps.
1. Launch Print dialog.
2. Click on "More Options..." button.
3. Now select Color management.
4. Here you can see the Color Handling drop down. Please select Printer Manages Color.
Note:- Use this scenario when you are sure a about your printer profile and settings.
Scenario 2 (When Photoshop Elements handle color). In case you want PSE to handle all color management then please select Photoshop Elements Manages Color in Color Handling drop down. Then select the same printer profile as Image space.
Note:- If you are using this option, make sure the color management of your Printer is off.
Hope this will help you.

Predominantly reddish photo prints predominantly green

Using PhotoshopCS3 on windows xp pro with Epson R800 photo printer with 2GB RAM. Printer was purchased in 2005 but has latest software driver updates. Printer colour management is off.
CS3 produces great results until I want the printer, fortunately I use printer very rarely, but situation can not continue. Followed Chris Orwigs colour video without any change in the result. Monitor is calibrated using Samsung's own calibration software.
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Thank you.

I'll add my vote to those who think the dark magenta is missing entirely.
Nozzle check time! Also, print the image outside of Photoshop and compare.

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My company has been using Corel Ventura for years, up to version 10.   We are now switching in InDesign CS4, but everything is printing dark. We use it to publish black & white manuals, including some photos & vector art.
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Any help would be great!!!
Lighting Source Settings - http://lightningsource.com/ops/files/premedia/PSsettingsINDcs4_PC_int.pdf

Not knowing more, this is a possible solution if you have Photoshop:
1. In Photoshop with no documents open: Edit Color Settings. By CMYK, Custom CMYK. Black Generation "Maximum"
2. Hit OK, but NOT to the whole Color Settings dialog, just the Custom CMYK dialog. Again in the CMYK pull down, "Save CMYK" Put the profile in your Color Sync folder where InDesign will recognize it. After you save it CANCEL. You don't really want to alter your Photoshop color settings, you just want to create the Max Black Generation profile
3. In InDesign. Create a top most layer on master page. Create a white box to fill the whole page. Set Blend Mode to "Color" Lock the layer.
4. Change the transparency blend space to RGB (Under Edit)
5. Assign the new Max Black CMYK profile to the ID document (Edit: Assign Profile)
6. Check with Separations Preview, you should have K channel only
7. Export PDF/X1a. By Output: Destination: "Document CMYK." You must flatten transparency when you output PDF, and X-1a will do this. The PDF result will be black and white, K channel only. Verify in Acrobat.
This process converts an all color InDesign document to K only CMYK. Dot Gain will be standard 20% but can be changed in step 1 when you create the custom CMYK.
Any grayscale images placed should not be affected by this workflow.
This process is the closest thing I know of to grayscale color management in InDesign.

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