My color of my clip art and pictures) have great color. When I print the color is way different. Help?

[GinaB]

I have tried two different printers: a color laser and a inkjet. Both printed out the clip art and/or picture way off on color tone. I think it might be my computer transmitting wrong color info. Is that possible. I need a solution.Both printers I have tried were new with new ink, same problem. Its not the printer, I believe it has something to do with the way Windows is transmitting the color.

[Kayla]

try a new ink cartridge

[sohabe]

its not the computer transmitting...the computer can display colours even beyond how many colours the eye can even see...the printers we have arent high enough quality and they screw around when it comes to colours.. clean the heads and nozzles and what not in the printer setup

[colenikol]

Get an image editor (free one will work too). Save the image in CMYK instead as it in RGB mode. This will work for correct printing

[lansingstudent09101]

The monitor uses additive colors and red,green, and blue to display while printers print using the subtractive method of color using Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. CMYK (printer colors) can't approximate purple or yellows very well, and different printers have different ideas of what the signals should mean, this is also coupled with problems in transmitions and lossy formats (clipart is a bitmap type file which means it's made up from little blocks so they look blocky when enlarged). The monitor can be calibrated to match the printer output usually with the software that comes with the driver that usually has a small icon in the bar with the clock.Short of a good laser printer and making your own vector graphics it's unlikely you will get better quality, but for the best quality, stay away from purples, and print things at the size that they really are (or smaller, but try not to do smaller).

[chris.e.fry]

Have you tried a different driver (Postscript VS PCL)? Also, not all printers are created equal. Generally, printers that get colors right on the money cost big bucks.