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Finally got a printer! [and I sorta fixed the issue]
5 years ago
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[edit] I'm dumb to expect plain paper to do a good job. I realized the printer came with a few sheets of glossy paper and everything looks better. Kinda sucks cause my plan was to print stickers alongside mailing labels but the adhesive paper is matte, so I guess I'll have to just avoid certain blues when designing.
glossy print: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachme.....03_1246491.jpg
SO yesterday I was at walmart and while my sister was scanning like every item looking for secret sales I checked printers to see if instore prices are as ridiculous as online. Managed to find a single pixma ts8322 for $90, prob a little inflated but that's as good as I'm getting.
Anyway after setting it up I did a print of some cat/dog stickers and found I'm still plagued by darkened cyan: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachme.....98/unknown.png
Another thing is when printing from the pc things are always lighter. This was an issue with the old printer too, like the only way I could get pure black to print was if I printed it from word???(imagine importing a shipping label into word just so it prints properly lol). Black prints fine now tho. If I print from an sd card the colors are deeper but cyan is still messed up
I know its a color space/management issue but no amount of tweaking seems to help and I'm getting weary wasting paper and ink u_u
I found a few threads of ppl having the same problem but ofc there was no solution given
glossy print: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachme.....03_1246491.jpg
SO yesterday I was at walmart and while my sister was scanning like every item looking for secret sales I checked printers to see if instore prices are as ridiculous as online. Managed to find a single pixma ts8322 for $90, prob a little inflated but that's as good as I'm getting.
Anyway after setting it up I did a print of some cat/dog stickers and found I'm still plagued by darkened cyan: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachme.....98/unknown.png
Another thing is when printing from the pc things are always lighter. This was an issue with the old printer too, like the only way I could get pure black to print was if I printed it from word???(imagine importing a shipping label into word just so it prints properly lol). Black prints fine now tho. If I print from an sd card the colors are deeper but cyan is still messed up
I know its a color space/management issue but no amount of tweaking seems to help and I'm getting weary wasting paper and ink u_u
I found a few threads of ppl having the same problem but ofc there was no solution given
I know comparing glossy to plain paper is a bad idea but I just thought it was strange how it used an even darker blue than the cat in my other print when the actual color is a bit lighter. reds are lighter on plain but blues are darker. This printer has a photo blue cart which supposedly helps make things more blue but so far nope :v
I will try getting a print program to see if it can colormatch better, the more I mess with ps the worse things look
Once you've printed that image out, you will have to manually tweak your monitor to try to match it because those are the colors you will reproduce. I'd suggest investing in a hardware calibrator tool at some point for this if you want pinpoint accuracy, otherwise there is some free software out there that can assist a bit
There's no difference with the paper setting tests I did, which may or may not be from the printer somehow detecting the paper isn't actually whatever I set it to
A printer like you ended up with is possibly made for walmart customers who want to print casual photographs from their mobile telephones and won't notice or care about drab colors. I do find it ironic that cyan is a color this sort of printer struggles with considering that is supposedly one of the primary unmixed ink colors but I don't think it means the same thing in ink as it does inside a computer, unless you draw them in something like adobe illustrator that is always in cmyk mode.
Still I think the printer does your cyan more justice than your pink.
as far as the black goes, it looks like that printer has two types of black in it, PGBK which is I think a pure black that looks good but doesn't cooperate with colors and the "dye based" black that it uses otherwise, which isn't as strong.
Kinda sucks cause the adhesive paper I have is matte
I remember gloss paper making colors show up darker, and that sometimes it was an improvement and sometimes it was disastrous. I think the example you showed here on the regular paper is FAR from disastrous. You who designed it know it looks wrong, but somebody else receiving it wouldn't likely be bothered, so long as the contrast and color relationships are more or less intact. I definitely had, in the past, a problem where if I put pinks beside purples, the difference between them could quite nearly disappear on the print.