Printing quality differece between printing from Editor or from Organizer

I print a photo from the Organizer and get a very good match to the image on the screen. When I print the exact same photo from the Editor it is darker, more black pigment, not near as true to the screen as from the Organizer. How can I get a truer print from the Editor? Jim Rust

conroerust wrote:
Yes it is Photo Shop Elements.....Jim
OK, this forum is for the full program, so ask in the Elements forum.

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Print quality difference between iphoto and aperture...?

when ordering books, is there a print quality difference between using iPhoto and Aperture? or are they sent to the same lab?
it's possible i may have some setting wrong, but when i order a book using iphoto, i never really feel the quality is that great. it's good, i just feel it could be a lot better. the print quality sort of reminds me of newsprint, albeit high quality newsprint. similar sized prints made at home on my basic 3-in-1 printer look better.
thanks...

Previews are what you view on your display. When you import a photo into Aperture (and I'm pretty sure iPhoto as well), your computer automatically generates a preview for quick viewing. The original images are stored in your library, but it is the preview that you see.
In Aperture, you are able to set the size and quality of these previews. When sharing photos between Aperture and iPhoto, the process is as follows:
Let's say that your images are stored in Aperture, but you also want to be able to view them in iPhoto without taking up too much room on your hard drive. Essentially, if you were to import the originals into iPhoto as well, you would be storing two exact, yet separate copies of the same image on your hard drive. As you are aware, with large images (whether JPEG's, and especially RAW) this would put quite a tax on your storage capacity after not too long.
So, you have your images in one or the other (in this case Aperture), but you want to play around with them in iPhoto. What you can do, is open iPhoto, go to the File menu and then select, Show Aperture Library. This will open a window with all of the contents of your Aperture Library. You can then drag any images you want into iPhoto . The only thing is, you are not dragging the original JPEG's, but rather, the previews of those images. If you have those previews set to a lower quality (again for capacity concerns), you will only have lower quality and lower detailed images in iPhoto. These images might not be ideal, or even suitable for printing high quality prints. The previews that you generate in Aperture though can be adjusted to be extremely high quality with no size limits.
My thinking was that since you mentioned Aperture, it sounded like you had experience with working with it and with ordering a photo book through Aperture. I guess you were saying that you ordered via iPhoto, weren't happy with the quality and were wondering if Aperture created books were better.
Anyway, if this is the case, I cannot answer that for you. I have never ordered a book through Aperture. If the quality of your images is good, you should be able to get a decent product no matter where you order it from. There is not doubt that the materials used and the print shop that does the work makes a difference, but if your images are good, you should still get a decent product through iPhoto. Perhaps iPhoto isn't the way to go though if you have had poor experiences with them.
If you haven't used Aperture yet, I would highly recommend it though aside from the photo book aspect of this thread. It is a stellar product.
I hope this helps.
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Problem: Changing print quality iMac + Canon Printer MG6220

If I want to print a web page in Firefox from my iMac to a Canon MG6220 printer, I cannot change the print quality. I can only choose "Standard" and not "Fast". All other options for print quality are "grayed-out".
This happens in both Firefox and Aurora. It does not hold true with Safari, Opera, Chrome, OmniWeb, Camino, and Flock. Also, it does not hold true with Thunderbird.
I want to stay with Firefox/Aurora as my default browser.

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Apple vs Windows - print quality, scanning, and print preview

I use an old Epson A3 Photo (1290) to produce very high quality prints as artists' limited edition cards. From Windows the print quality is fantastic, but printing the same page from the Apple (to the same printer) the print quality is terrible. Anyone have any idea what the problem is?
Also the Epson and my two Canon printers offer a print preview from the printer driver, which has saved me many a duff printout. I can't find the same option from Apple (for the same printers). Is there a solution?
Finally - I have a high-quality Epson Scanner, the 4870 Epson Perfection. It came with EpsonScan, a very nice program I've used for many years. The Apple image capture is pretty pathetic in comparison. Anyone have a better suggestion? Surely there must be one with good functionality and flexibility. (I tried installing EpsonScan to the Apple but for some reason it can't see the scanner, even though it is plugged in.)

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HP Photosmart 5520 print quality issues - Not printing black

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I bought a HP 5520 printer. I used it once and printed less than 10 photos and it was great the quality was superb.
I went to use it for the second time and the print quality was terrible. There is no problem with the printer responding to comannds it tries to print just it is awful quality.
I used the trouble shooting guide that HP have posted on line. I went through every step multiple times - I am using the correct paper, Genuine HP cartridges.
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Hi,
Yes it is in Warranty. It is virtually brand new.
After I last posted I got through to the online chat support and was sent an email with options to 'troubleshoot' which I had already done with no success.
I was also given a link to try to update the printer firmware - which I will try when I get home from work.
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How to improve the printing quality of pictures, printing a database layout

I have a database that contains also pictures in multimedia containers. If I print a layout containing a picture, the quality of the picture is really bad! Pixeled with big pixels.
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I'm guessing that your images are JPEGs. AppleWorks changes the resolution of all graphic formats except PICT to 72 dpi. There are a couple of things you can do improve the print quality of images.
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HP Laserjet P1006 suddenly quit printing wirelessly - in between print jobs. Instantly.

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I used to be able to print wirelessly from my macbook Pro (OSX 10.8.3) to my Laserjet P1006.
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Hi,
Teh Laserjet P1006 is a USB only printer and does not provide any wireless connection:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01173154&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&cc=us&dlc=en...
May you connected the pritner to a print server (a USB port of a router, etc.) in the past? yje specific model does not support any connection without using a USB.
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Printer printing blank sheets between printed ones

I have a HP Officejet 6210 all in one, running windows XP. My problem is when I am printing something I made up in microsoft word, it puts out a blank sheet first than it puts out a blank sheet in between the printed ones. I don't want to have to babysit it if I have a lot of copies to print.It seems to only do it on certain ones. I have an older version of word.

This article should help resolve your blank pages:
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Hello,
We experience major print quality problems when printing directly from Graphisoft's ArchiCAD, Nemetscheks Vectorworks and from Apple's Preview.
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Obviously, we have approached FJX Tech Support and are awaiting a reply - however we are disappointed that this is happening on relatively new equipment and wonder if anybody else has already found a solution.

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Controlling print quality from the touchscreen on the MG6320

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2, if I can and do set it there, will my selection apply to all future print jobs until I change the setting again, or will it just apply to the one print job in the queue at the time, etc?
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Hi Ralp51,
The print quality of documents printed from your computer is controlled be the printer driver on the computer. The quality cannot be adjusted from the PIXMA MG6320 itself.
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Print quality issues

Hello
We are having print quality issue when printing PDF's to our Canon iR C2880/C3380 UFR II. This was the most recent print driver from canons website which was download about 6 weeks ago. version 2.9. At one time we were having other pring quality issues and we changed from the post script driver to the ufr ii which solved the problem at the time.
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image 1
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Hi, nd a warm welcome to the forums!
Off the bat, it looks like maybe bad RAM/ROM in the Printer, or corrupt Font.
Can you have another Computer jook to it and print for a test?
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Your printer is supported by the latest update supplied by Apple.
Cheap paper usually results in cheap looking results.
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Print quality / resolution for iPhoto books

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I am getting ready to upload my first iPhoto book for printing, and a colleague told me to beware of a potential issue. After searching these forums, and searching Google, I found that people in the past (perhaps prior to iPhoto '08?) have had print quality problems when printing 8.5 x 11 books vs. 6x10 books.
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I have ordered books in the past that were made up of photos 1600 x 1200 pixels in dimension and they came out fine. HOWEVER, I had no pages with a photo filling the entire page as Larry warned about.
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I expected to see a value of either 1440 DPI or 5760 DPI values in the PSE print dialog box after setting the print quality in the printer driver.
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