Printed Photos color very saturated
When I print this photo:
on photo paper on my Photosmart C309a Series, the color is too saturated.
and yet when I print on plain paper the photo looks fine.
The photo paper used is HP Premium and the ink is HP. The print quality report looks OK:
What is wrong? Is the printer not working correctly? I have tried all kinds of option changes and have wasted over 20 pages of photo paper (not to speak of the ink used). I'm thinking of taking the printer back to Costco.
can anyone help?
What program are you printing from? If you are printing from Photoshop make sure you are not selecting CMYK as the printer model. Even though the printer uses CMYK inks the driver expects RGB data from the computer.
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