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Great tutorial, I've done what has been suggested here and my prints from PDF's are still too dark. The closest I can come is choosing "draft" in the printer settings. When I print photos though they look perfect. Getting really frustrated.
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For $449.00(amazon)' it better make life easier.

How often do you have to recheck your system?


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I did something the other day that I don't quite understand. Whenever I have printed pictures on Photopaper and chose "Best" for the quality the pictures are perfect; meaning that they matched print and screen. So just for the hell of it, I chose Photo paper and Best, but printed it on my card stock that I used before. To my amazement the prints came out better than when I did the same PDF but chose normal quality or draft quality using for the same stock. I don't understand how putting more ink would cause better results. Any explanation?

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I think it has something to do with the number of dots per inch the printer puts on the paper with the different settings. The Best setting would put more dpi than Normal setting. That is why Best prints slower than Normal and Draft prints fastest because fewer dpi are used in Draft.
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I think it has something to do with the number of dots per inch the printer puts on the paper with the different settings. The Best setting would put more dpi than Normal setting. That is why Best prints slower than Normal and Draft prints fastest because fewer dpi are used in Draft.
Thanks SCEtoAUX, but what I don't understand, is that at normal setting everything looks almost black, but on best setting it's more blue like it should be.
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For $449.00(amazon)' it better make life easier.
How often do you have to recheck your system?
SFX
It costs me about $750 in RU. :(
I've make home monitor calibration once and work monitors several times.
However I'm calibrating my printer at list once a month for two type of paper (white and silver(metallic)).
My main profit here is that I'm designing a model currently and have to have all colors on all pages to be exactly the same despite the time it's printed.
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Thanks SCEtoAUX, but what I don't understand, is that at normal setting everything looks almost black, but on best setting it's more blue like it should be.
There are a lot of things involved on this way. F.e.- monitor color profile, PDF-file color profile, PDF reader color profile, printer color profile (different for different printing settings), color manipulation algorithm in PDF reader, in printer, paper color and it's reaction to your inks and so on.
So if you'd like to have exact color-matching - only way is to calibrate your equipment. If color-matching isn't a goal - try to play with printing settings until you'll got satisfactory results.
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