Mohsen - Are you running soft-proofing in PS with the correct profile? How does that compare to the print color? Sometimes that can be useful for debugging. But overall I think you have two problems to treat separately :
1) Is the correct profile and color management being applied. This might involve trying to intentionally use bad profiles, just to be certain that things are actually being used and read, as suggested in the other thread. It also might mean posting your actual preference dialogs from your computer (print driver and PS) just to let other people look at them.
2) Once you are certain the settings are correct, and the profiles are actually being applied, then and only then would I worry about print-to-screen matching.
If you try to deal with both at once, you may wind up spinning your wheels a lot and not getting anywhere.
How have you set "Rendering Intent" in PS. Also, is "Black Point Compensation" checked, or unchecked.
I have a 2400 and use Premium Luster paper. I am not using a custom paper profile. However. I find I get the best match between print and monitor by using "Relative Colometric" in "Rendering Intent" and have "Black Point Compensation" checked.
I can see a difference in the two images above. However, it's difficult to say what's causing this difference. As David says, we need to see your settings in PS and the 2400 printer dialogs. Can you post a couple of screen shots, Mohsen?
If you are running a Windows machine, are the PS settings the same as the Windows print setting?
If Windows, what version of Windows and does it have all of the current updates? The original version of XP was notorious for knocking out the monitor profile, which meant that you could perfectly color correct for a monitor that was effectively unprofiled.
Have you profiled your monitor? If so, how? Just some basic like a Spyder or Adobe Gamma should be enough of an answer. (Edit: I just saw that you use the Spyder - when was the last time you recalibrated?)
Is this a newly occurring problem or an issue right along?
If this is new, what changes in your equipment have you made recently, say in the 6-8 prior weeks?
Do you have another printer which you can make a test on? How about another computer? If so, how does it look and print from there? I'm trying to take the computer/printer out of the equation.
Do you have another monitor to hook up and compare?
Can you get access to a completely different system to look at the computer, to take all of your gear out of the equation? If so, how does it look and/or print?
Have you done any software updates recently? If so, what?
Have you done a nozzle check? That is almost certainly not the issue since it would look weird rather than off but it wouldn't hurt.
If you have had prints that came out right 6 months ago, try reprinting one of those to compare. What is the result?
And last, I am going to repeat the request to post your printer and software settings. It is very easy to miss or accidently reset something, especially if you are flipping back and forth between papers and profiles.
Printing yourself can be very challenging at first.
Here are a few questions I thought of, assuming you're printing with Photoshop. I'll second Dan's comments, it would be much more helpful if you'd give your current print settings/software used.
1. Are you using a profiled monitor?
2. Are you letting photoshop manage the colors instead of the printer? This option is on the first print screen in photoshop.
3. Are you using the right media profile for the paper you're using?
4. Do you have additional color management options turned off in your printer driver?
These would be the likeliest problems if you're printing with photoshop.
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4 replies1) Is the correct profile and color management being applied. This might involve trying to intentionally use bad profiles, just to be certain that things are actually being used and read, as suggested in the other thread. It also might mean posting your actual preference dialogs from your computer (print driver and PS) just to let other people look at them.
2) Once you are certain the settings are correct, and the profiles are actually being applied, then and only then would I worry about print-to-screen matching.
If you try to deal with both at once, you may wind up spinning your wheels a lot and not getting anywhere.
I have a 2400 and use Premium Luster paper. I am not using a custom paper profile. However. I find I get the best match between print and monitor by using "Relative Colometric" in "Rendering Intent" and have "Black Point Compensation" checked.
I can see a difference in the two images above. However, it's difficult to say what's causing this difference. As David says, we need to see your settings in PS and the 2400 printer dialogs. Can you post a couple of screen shots, Mohsen?
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If you are running a Windows machine, are the PS settings the same as the Windows print setting?
If Windows, what version of Windows and does it have all of the current updates? The original version of XP was notorious for knocking out the monitor profile, which meant that you could perfectly color correct for a monitor that was effectively unprofiled.
Have you profiled your monitor? If so, how? Just some basic like a Spyder or Adobe Gamma should be enough of an answer. (Edit: I just saw that you use the Spyder - when was the last time you recalibrated?)
Is this a newly occurring problem or an issue right along?
If this is new, what changes in your equipment have you made recently, say in the 6-8 prior weeks?
Do you have another printer which you can make a test on? How about another computer? If so, how does it look and print from there? I'm trying to take the computer/printer out of the equation.
Do you have another monitor to hook up and compare?
Can you get access to a completely different system to look at the computer, to take all of your gear out of the equation? If so, how does it look and/or print?
Have you done any software updates recently? If so, what?
Have you done a nozzle check? That is almost certainly not the issue since it would look weird rather than off but it wouldn't hurt.
If you have had prints that came out right 6 months ago, try reprinting one of those to compare. What is the result?
And last, I am going to repeat the request to post your printer and software settings. It is very easy to miss or accidently reset something, especially if you are flipping back and forth between papers and profiles.
Here are a few questions I thought of, assuming you're printing with Photoshop. I'll second Dan's comments, it would be much more helpful if you'd give your current print settings/software used.
1. Are you using a profiled monitor?
2. Are you letting photoshop manage the colors instead of the printer? This option is on the first print screen in photoshop.
3. Are you using the right media profile for the paper you're using?
4. Do you have additional color management options turned off in your printer driver?
These would be the likeliest problems if you're printing with photoshop.