Color matching digital images with a photo printer...

[cytoSiN]

Hey, I'm hoping someone here can help me out of what could become a major pain in the ass.

I own a fujifilm finepix 6900 digital camera, which takes beautiful pictures with professional quality, and I got a Canon s820 photo printer as a gift. The printer prints great borderless 4x6 pictures according to every review I've ever read, and according to a friend who owns the newer s900 (which is the same printer with greater nozzle coverage for faster print speeds).

SO, the short of it is that my pictures are detailed but washed out and the color balance is obvisouly grossly off. Instead of wasting paper and trying to fix it by hand, which could take hours and hours and cost me a buttload on paper, I figured I would ask if anyone has a utility that will take color settings from a picture or camera and match those settings to a printer, or if anyone has had a problem like this and wants to help me out.

I have massive piles of pictures if anyone thinks seeing one would help.
PM me or just reply, or email at asc8@duke.edu.

Thanx in advance...

 

[Crapgame]

Make sure your advanced printer settings are set correctly, photopaper pro, advanced, fine as possible, error correction, photo optimiser and whole page optimizer all checked. I always run the printhead alinement test sheet at least twice before attempting a photo quality paper. It seems to help warm it up.

I have had endless troubles with Kodaks UltimaII glossy paper, peoples skin comes out looking like that big alien with the red eyes from babalon5. Sort of a splotchy freckle effect on skintone shadows, the best paper sofar has been a pearl finish photo quality "gallery paper", dont know the name offhand but I'll check the box when I goto work tomorow.

BTW, this is my experiance with an S800, not too far off.

 

[cytoSiN]

I'm using Canon's own paper, so there should be no problems there. I honestly believe that this is a color levels problem, because the images seem clean aside from the completely inconrrect colors in most areas. Blacks are washed out in a reddish purple tone and the balance is so off that most dark areas of pictures print looking like negatives. I've never seen anything like it before...

As for print head alignment, I ran it and fixed it and since the images aren't blurry or off center or anything I'm pretty sure I've got it right. Anyway, thanx for the suggestions...keep em coming