Since submitting my problem I have spent the last several hours trying to isolate the problem — without much success.
If anything, I am mroe frustrated than ever.
While waiting for a solution, I moved on to another, simpler project: reducing the size of a red and yellow image of a star I had scanned from a greeting card and printing it .
It looked perfect on my monitor, but printed in brown and yellow instead of red and yellow.
Here are some of the steps I have taken — none of which worked:
1. Checked to be sure the image was in CMYK mode and tried printing with both the printer and Photos shop checked for color management,
In both cases, the red printed in brown.
2. Tried again using RGB mode, but got the ssame results.
3. Tried printing separations but output eof each try was a darker and arker shade of green untilit looked almost black.
4. Tried printing a solid block of red, which printed closer to gold than brown (still with yellow as the second color).
Made me realize the background of the original card also was gold, so eliminated the background from the original scan and pasted the resulting image onto a white background.
Result: instead of brown, tose segments of the star now print in green (but still not red).
5. Kept looking online for other solutions and eventually realzied that the problem might be related to "rendering intent" (which was set for "relative colormetric" so changed that to "perceptual."
Output looked a little sharper, but it's still printing in yellow and green.
While I probably could replicate the graphic (more or less) . . . might have a minor problem where the colors (which are transparent) overlap . . . I really would prefer to learn something from this experience. I'm just not sure what else I can t ry next.
Any suggestions?
