Off Color Printing

My printer at work (Canon S750) was printing with color that were slightly
wierd, not true colors for pictures and maps. I performed all the
maintainence tasks and still the same.

I brought in my home printer (Brother MFC 3240) to work. The printer works
perfectly at home. When I installed it at work, again the colors are off,
just like the other work printer.

Why would the output be different using the same printer, drivers, settings
and paper? The Color Management, color profiles are the same. The only
difference is at home I use XP Pro and at work it is XP Home.

It is not the printer but the app you are using to print. Open the app and
under File check Print and see if you have the feature called "Printer
Calibration", that's where the problem is.
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rest of your life.


"Terry" wrote:

> My printer at work (Canon S750) was printing with color that were slightly
> wierd, not true colors for pictures and maps. I performed all the
> maintainence tasks and still the same.
>
> I brought in my home printer (Brother MFC 3240) to work. The printer works
> perfectly at home. When I installed it at work, again the colors are off,
> just like the other work printer.
>
> Why would the output be different using the same printer, drivers, settings
> and paper? The Color Management, color profiles are the same. The only
> difference is at home I use XP Pro and at work it is XP Home.

I am using Word 2003. The only "printer calibration" that I can see to
change is in the printer's properties section. I did not find any other
section in Word that I could change.


"Byte" wrote:

> It is not the printer but the app you are using to print. Open the app and
> under File check Print and see if you have the feature called "Printer
> Calibration", that's where the problem is.
> --
> XP - WNP
> Today is the first day of the
> rest of your life.
>
>
> "Terry" wrote:
>
> > My printer at work (Canon S750) was printing with color that were slightly
> > wierd, not true colors for pictures and maps. I performed all the
> > maintainence tasks and still the same.
> >
> > I brought in my home printer (Brother MFC 3240) to work. The printer works
> > perfectly at home. When I installed it at work, again the colors are off,
> > just like the other work printer.
> >
> > Why would the output be different using the same printer, drivers, settings
> > and paper? The Color Management, color profiles are the same. The only
> > difference is at home I use XP Pro and at work it is XP Home.

Try there, it may work.
--
XP - WNP
Today is the first day of the
rest of your life.


"Terry" wrote:

> I am using Word 2003. The only "printer calibration" that I can see to
> change is in the printer's properties section. I did not find any other
> section in Word that I could change.
>
>
> "Byte" wrote:
>
> > It is not the printer but the app you are using to print. Open the app and
> > under File check Print and see if you have the feature called "Printer
> > Calibration", that's where the problem is.
> > --
> > XP - WNP
> > Today is the first day of the
> > rest of your life.
> >
> >
> > "Terry" wrote:
> >
> > > My printer at work (Canon S750) was printing with color that were slightly
> > > wierd, not true colors for pictures and maps. I performed all the
> > > maintainence tasks and still the same.
> > >
> > > I brought in my home printer (Brother MFC 3240) to work. The printer works
> > > perfectly at home. When I installed it at work, again the colors are off,
> > > just like the other work printer.
> > >
> > > Why would the output be different using the same printer, drivers, settings
> > > and paper? The Color Management, color profiles are the same. The only
> > > difference is at home I use XP Pro and at work it is XP Home.