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makaveli8x8
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Windows 7 "print app"
#14282197 - 04/13/11 03:45 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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ok somehow i have windows 7 retarded print app showing up all the time now when i go to print something. but i don't want to use it i want to use the stuff that came with my printer, the windows one is so dam generic and i think its overriding the settings i put inside the epson software.
maybe i should be more specific, i scanned a photo, it looks perfect on my monitor, i print it, and its dark as hell, at first i had "fix photo" set so i turned that off and tried epson vivid, then i tried grayscale, and thats when i realized windows 7 "photo printer" is most likely overriding it all because i found some "color profile" tab in there but its way to confusing and much simplar just to revert back to how it was, maybe windows 7 was always like this i dunno but its really being a problem right now, they really dumbed down so much crap that its unuseable on this OS now i mean don't even get me started on what they did to the paint app. really makes me wonder why i bothered to upgrade at all, there's no dx11 games, half the stuff they did is a huge step back making the program useless...just so sad.
but anyways the bottom line is something windows 7 is doing is causing my photo's to look like crap and it won't let me change it far as i can tell, short of jumping into my paint program and brightening it but im not going to sit there and play roulette with my photo paper because i just got done doing that
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Edited by makaveli8x8 (04/13/11 03:49 AM)
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koraks
Registered: 06/02/03
Posts: 26,672
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1. Calibrate your monitor (and make sure it is in a proper spot with appropriate and consistent ambient light) 2. Use soft proofing to get an estimate how the printed photo will come out and adjust accordingly.
If you can't do 1 or 2 properly (e.g. due to a lack of the necessary hardware, software or skills), then you'll have to keep meddling until you get things just about right. Digital printing is a lot less straightforward than it seems. Entire volumes have been written to cover this subject. If you don't feel like reading thousands of paper pages, you could hop over to the Luminous Landscape web page and scrounge it; Michael Reichmann (c.s.) has written lots of it, and his videos are said to be extremely useful in setting up a high-quality digital photography workflow.
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