This is why I can't have nice things - AKA ARRRRRRRrrrrr

[lauragarabedian]

Welp its not the printers fault (which isn't something you hear people say very often) 

No I'm not spontaneously turning into a pirate... though I am considering throwing myself off the plank.  (no, not really, bad joke, whatever).  After much troubleshooting and going through a crapton of ink and paper I think the problem isn't my printer its me.  I changed my scanner settings about a month ago as they seemed to be producing a better digital image.  

Yep. Digital image is GREAT best scans of watercolors I've ever gotten.  But something about it has destroyed the print quality.  No subtleties to shadows and highlights, oversaturated golds and blues and undersaturated and way to dark reds... holy cripes batman, I just want it to print whats on my screen... which has NEVER been a problem before.  i.e. all of the things that I've printed before are printing just lovely. No problems whatsoever... anything SCANNED w/in the last month... crap...

Dammit.  So I think everything I've done in the past month is gonna have crap for printability, I'm still trying to fix things in Photoshop but my hope is low at this point...

Comments

[xxbalaaxx.livejournal.com]

Do you have a calibrated monitor? Ironically after I got a calibrated monitor, all my images at home print super dark -__- but things I print at a pro printer with custom icc print profiles are almost dead on to what I see on screen! You can also try fiddling with photoshop handling the color management in the ps print options dialogue. I must be frank color management has been the bane of my life since I discovered it's multi-dimensional complexities..ie pains-in-the-proverbial-bum.

But if you don't have a color calibrated monitor..you may try calibrating (there are free software based programs if you google C: ) and see if in your case the prints match closer to what you see on screen. I wish I could be more forthcoming with advice but color management is one amorphous crapshoot :/.

[lauragarabedian.livejournal.com]

Welp, the problem isn't the monitor/computer I don't think? I mean everything printed previously, everything scanned prior to this month is stil printing beatuifully... the only things wrong are things scanned this month :/

I appreciate your suggestions though Thanks!

[xxbalaaxx.livejournal.com]

Oh well I am sorry I could not offer help but I hope you figure out what's doing it. Maybe try downgrading drivers to older ones or write down your settings and reset everything to factory default? Hope you get it sorted!