Print colors dont match screen colors

New Envy 5530- When I print an excel spreadsheet with cells that are highlighted using excel's standard colors the print colors dont match the screen colors... i.e. Yellow prints as Green, Red prints more like Maroon, and so on! Is there a way to adjust the printer's colors to more closely match what I am seeing on the screen. I am using new HP ink cartridges.

I'm sorry, but there is no quick and easy solution. From your description it very much sounds like not a single piece of your equipment is calibrated, hence no matter where you print, your colors go awry. That would not change with InDesign or any other program you had in mind. They, too, require proper calibration to give correct colors. Somewhere on the Support pages there is a color management primer document, I suggest you read that. Then by all means do a proper calibration of your monitor and your local printer. Get yourself a Colormunki or similar device and use the included templates to run the calibration process. I'm sure you can borrow one from a print agency as a test, but if you are doing this regularly, you really should consider buying one for permanent use and re-calibration. If thats too expensive, construct your own calibration template with areas of solid color(Cyan,Magenta,Yellow,Red,Blue,Green,Black,75%Grey,50%Grey,25%Grey,White, a greyscale gradient) and eyeball it. Your local printer is definitely doing all its stuff based on Windows' RGB settings, so letting PS manage color will not do any good. It's all in the printer driver. And no offense: Accurate color presentation on a 89 USD all-in-one office printer is probably something completely impossible. Of course when you let stuff print professionally, CMYK as working mode may be necessary, but depending on where you let it print and what method they use (Laser? Digital offset printing? High performance inkjet?), their entire workflow may simply be based on a standardized sRGB profile as well. On the GotPrint page they state that documents must be provided in CMYK, yet they provide no downloadable color profiles, which already is not so good. Therefore you can only use the standard CMYK profiles in PS and hope for the best. Other providers may have better information on that. Well, anyway, you have a lot of work before you, it's just not going to be a 5 minute solution....
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I edit my prints in a room with no overhead lighting and use a desk lamp so that no light shines on the monitor. If I put my hand on the monitor surface the back of my hand is dark; no light shinng on it.
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