[TriLUG] Picture Printing and HPLIP

[Ken M]

Well I will mention this.  In a rush to get a few prints on one of them I took an SD card with the images to the local CVS to print on their machine.  Of course not happy with the price of that.  But the unaltered image printed as expected.  Now I understand they have a much higher quality printer than I do, but it seems that if the issue is adjusting my image to the printer because of the presentation of my monitor that printing the same image on their printer would lead to the same dark results.  At least that is my uninformed opinion.

I think the weird thing I got going on here is there are three different print solutions on this machine at not one of them is the whole package.  Incidentally I tried using lpoption and lp commands and I can get it to hold like that but the print out is not fitting on the page that way either.

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 01:58:45PM -0500, Randy Barlow wrote:
> On 12/15/2014 09:49 AM, Ken M wrote:
> > Now of course one option is to edit the image just for print.
> 
> I don't have any very helpful technical tips for you, but I can tell you
> that editing for print is what is typically done "in the industry". Both
> computer monitors and printers have biases, so it's typical to do a
> whole lot of cross-calibration to make sure that what you see on your
> screen will be similar to what you will print. This requires adjusting
> for the computer monitor and the printer, and it's complicated.
> 
> It does sound like something crazy might be going on in your situation
> that makes it more dramatic than it might otherwise be.
> 
> -- 
> R