IP 4700 colour not same on print as seen on computer screen

[ghwellsjr]

I could be wrong but it looks to me like maybe your middle cyan is too light and maybe the top one too. Hopefully, someone who has one of these printers can comment on it.

If you look at the top cyan in the bad nozzle check that I posted, you will see two different shades of cyan. This is caused by an electrical problem but if the electrical problem existed for the whole band, it wouldn't be obvious, it would just be lighter.

If anyone knows how to do an extended nozzle check on this printer, that would tell you for sure.

 

[Tin Ho]

When I print the colours on the paper are not as vivid as I see on the computer screen,

Let's clarify it first. Is it a problem that the colors are not as vivid as on the monitor? Or is it a problem that colors are wrong? Computer monitors are brighter (they emit light out of the screen) than color prints that reflect light. The monitor will always be more vivid than color prints. There is no solution to this problem unless you turn down the intensity of the monitor to the level of light reflecting from prints.

If the problem is wrong colors than there may not be a solution either even you do the very best to claibrate the monitor. As Grandad pointed out the gamut of a monitor is very different from that of a printer with the ink used by that printer. There are colors on the monitor that are not printable. And there are printable colors that are not diaplayable by the monitor. If the color space of the a printer's colors are within the one of the monitor then you can calibrate the monitor to reduce its gamut (color space) to make it identical to the printer's. Then you can ask the printer to print what you see on the monitor.

However, it is nearly impossible to achieve that. Adobe engineers long time ago said it's impossible to pursue matching colors between prints and monitors. This was in a document on the ICC web site.

 

[drummond52]

What I find is the colour " Red " is a lot more vivid that what it prints, I would say that is my only problem, but if I am stuck with what i get so be it, I read over what grandad posted and I dont think I am up to that advanced calibration. Thanks for all the help...........drummond