PSCS3 print output washed out

Question

I have a one page composite document with photos and text that I have been printing for years without problems. Now when I print the document the colors are washed out, grainy, almost like it's in draft mode. I can't seem to find what setting has changed. Before, I just selected Print and used default settings, and the document printed beautifully.

Answer 1

The closer that your Monitor profile is to sRGB, the more likely you are to get a close match between Hex colors and your JPEGs when you view a web site in Safari.<br /><br />However, neither Dreamweaver nor Firefox are Color Managed so anything that you see displayed in them will be displayed using your Monitor profile (which will probably be different from everyone else's on the planet).<br /><br />And 98% of the people who subsequently view your site are going to be using non-color-managed Browsers and uncalibrated monitors so they will see something entirely different.<br /><br />Virtually all monitors now in use display "Millions of Colors" so the use of web-safe Hex colors is no longer necessary.<br /><br />I use GoLive in preference to Dreamweaver and in GL, I can specify colors using RGB values. <br /><br />Because my monitor is very close to sRGB; Safari, Photoshop and GoLive display the same RGB mix of colors almost identically.<br /><br />For example: If I specify the same 68R; 136G; 85B in GoLive that I used in Photoshop, it is then automatically translated by GL into html:<br /><color:#"#448055";>.<br /><br />Safari then displays the html color as a visibly identical match to the way that I see it in GoLive and Photoshop. But Firefox does NOT<br /><br />That is what we are up against with web work.