Monitor & printer colors don't match

Here are some steps you can take to improve the print quality:

Calibrate Your Monitor:
The most common reason for prints appearing darker than the display is a mismatch between the monitor and the print. Your display should be adjusted to match the print, not the other way around.
Ensure that your monitor is properly calibrated. Use professional image editing applications like Photoshop or Lightroom to soft-proof your images. Soft proofing allows the display to simulate how the print will look.
Adjust your monitor's brightness, gamma, and color temperature to match the desired print output.

Check Your Editing Software Settings:
In Photoshop or other photo-editing apps, review your soft proofing settings. Make sure you're using the correct working space profile (such as Adobe RGB) and that it accurately represents how the image will appear when printed.
Soft proofing helps you visualize how the print will look based on the printer's ICC profile.

Printer Settings and ICC Profiles:
Understand that your printer operates independently of the display. It prints directly from the image stored on your computer's hard drive, not from the display.
The printer has no knowledge of what the display is showing. It uses its own ICC profiles to interpret colors.
Make sure you're using the correct ICC profile for your printer and paper type.

Color Management:
Color management ensures consistency between devices (display, printer, etc.). Properly managed color workflows help achieve accurate prints.
Consult your printer's user manual or online resources for specific color management instructions.

Print Test images:
Print test images with varying colors and gradients. Observe if there's a consistent issue (such as overall darkness or color shifts).
Adjust printer settings, such as brightness, contrast, and color balance, to achieve better results.

Paper and Ink Quality:
Use high-quality photo paper designed for inkjet or laser printers.
Ensure your ink cartridges are not expired or low on ink.
Remember that your display and printer use different technologies (transmitted light vs. reflected light) and have distinct color gamuts. Calibrating your monitor and understanding color management will help bridge the gap between what you see on the screen and what you get in your prints.

For detailed instructions specific to your OKI C9300 printer, refer to the user manual. What follows is how to install ICC profiles. The profile may be making your print darker.

For Windows Users:
Download the ICC Profile:
Visit the website of your paper manufacturer or other trusted sources.
Locate and download the relevant ICC profile for your printer, ink, and paper combination.
Save the profile to a convenient location (e.g., My Documents or Desktop).
Install the ICC Profile:
Right-click on the saved ICC profile file (it should appear as an RGB triangle).
Choose "Install Profile" from the context menu.
Alternatively, if you can't add the profile directly, copy it to this folder: C:/Windows/system32/spool/drivers/color.
Adjust Color Management Settings:
Open the Control Panel.
Navigate to Color Management.
Tick the "Use my settings for this device" option.
Click "Add..." and select the installed ICC profile.
In the Advanced tab, click "Change system defaults", then choose "Use Windows display calibration".
Close all windows. That's it. You are ready to rock.

Check your printer profile. got this on cannon printers.

I think you will have to use the printer's "color management" to adjust the output to match what you see on the monitor screen. Go to Canon's website, it explains everything you need to alter the colour profile for your printer.

If the colors in your document don’t look right, you can change whether colors are managed by ColorSync or your printer.
To change color management options for printing:
Open the document you want to print.
Choose File > Print.
If the Print dialog contains only two pop-up menus and some buttons across the bottom, click the disclosure triangle beside the Printer pop-up menu.
Choose Color Matching from the print options pop-up menu.
Select one of the following options:
Select ColorSync if you want the application you’re using to control the color management of the printed output.
Select “In printer” if you want the printer you’re using to control the color management of the printed output.
If you select ColorSync and don’t believe the correct profile is selected for your printer, you may be able to change it. If you see a Profile pop-up menu, choose Other Profiles from the pop-up menu, and select a new one.
I hope this info will help to sort out your problem..Regards

The only way to get color matching with the solid ink line 8400, 8500, 8550, 8560, 8860. Is to build you own colors with the CMYK sampler printout.

Beware this will print over 50 pages of swatchs showing the mix of CMYK for various colors. Your can then look at the color you want and see how it's made up i.e. 30% 30% 40% yellow gives a orangish color. You can then build these colors and name them in your application.

You will NOT get Panotone color matching with the solid ink series.

Unfortunately that's the age old problem of matching colors between computers and printers. Your printer is probably not the problem, that's why he couldn't fix it. Even though your monitor is set to default values it doesn't mean that your colors are correct as colors can vary from monitor to monitor and the color temperature is probably too high causing the colors to look lighter than the printout. The picture on the monitor may look good to you, but it's not set right for matching printer colors. Monitors use RGB (Red, Green & Blue colors) colors and printers use CYMK (Cyan, Yellow, Magenta & Black) colors and you have to make them get the results you want. You will have to do some tweaking of your monitor's settings to get it to match the printer output. Below are some links that will help explain things better and maybe help you adjust your monitor.

http://www.colorwiki.com/wiki/How_To_Get_My_Monitor_To_Match_My_Printer

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjWgmLYL.EGyC5z6hTuiEILty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090405191851AAl0xOq&show=7#profile-info-R3GCvDlKaa

http://www.hex2bit.com/products/product_mcw.asp

This is likely because your monitor is not calibrated with your printer. Search for monitor color calibration online and then calibrate your colors to match the color profile used by the MP610, likely Adobe RGB or something similar.

Since there has been no interaction for a lot of months, I think we can call this one "Poster Solution"

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Hello Mary Pat,
We just took delivery of a 7760 and have not even lifted it off of the skid yet. I've been using an EyeOne spectrophotometer for years profiling papers for inkjet printers and Xerox's support of this approach to color management was one of the reasons we bought this printer.
When you say you have calibrated the printer using the calibrations in the machine I assume you are referring to the "visual color calibration" method accessed through the control panel? I do believe that Phasermatch is limited to spectrophotometers.
I'm not familiar with the "visual color calibration" method, but unless it generates a profile for you to apply to your preview loop in your application, I'm not sure how you can benefit much.
How badly do the prints miss your on screen expectations? What application are you using to view the image file?
You can contact me by email if you like.
Dale [email protected]