Photo on screen vs print

[FowlersFreeTime]

This photo, obviously taken at blue hour, looks just fine to me on screen after editing. However when printing on my Epson ET3850, it comes out noticeably blue.

• Sony E 16-55mm F2.8 G
• 24.0 mm
• ƒ/4
• 1/125 sec
• ISO 160

White balance as shot, according to ON1, is 6317.
Do you all think I have a printer issue, or should I warm up the white balance in post?
In case you ask about printer nozzles, yes, I did a test print and it shows as normal.
Thoughts?

 

[AlphaWorld]

Please forgive the dumb question, but a problem I had when I started printing was letting both the printer driver AND the photo software apply adjustments - my first prints came out sickly green because of the “double management”. I also had to play games adding profiles that told the printer driver what paper I was using and what ink set and how to adjust appropriately.

Is it possible that you need to change the settings in the printing to something like “let the printer driver manage colour” ? (it has been some years since I last printed a photo at home - I don’t remember the names of the settings)

 

[Angus Cameron]

There are quite a variety of potential problems when printing. Please see this link to a free ebook, it's fairly comprehensive and should help you iron out any issues. https://fotospeed.com/ebook/artofprinting

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

Please forgive the dumb question, but a problem I had when I started printing was letting both the printer driver AND the photo software apply adjustments - my first prints came out sickly green because of the “double management”. I also had to play games adding profiles that told the printer driver what paper I was using and what ink set and how to adjust appropriately.

Is it possible that you need to change the settings in the printing to something like “let the printer driver manage colour” ? (it has been some years since I last printed a photo at home - I don’t remember the names of the settings)

I made sure the right paper size and type (photo paper - glossy) were selected, but there isn't much faff with the drivers nowadays.

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

There are quite a variety of potential problems when printing. Please see this link to a free ebook, it's fairly comprehensive and should help you iron out any issues. https://fotospeed.com/ebook/artofprinting

Thanks, I will take a look when I'm not on my work computer

 

[Phil Vetra]

Yup printing your own photos is a whole new learning curve. Check out this link....https://www.youtube.com/@JoseRodriguez-un9bd He is a master. And this guy also, his link....https://www.youtube.com/@KeithCooper.
Good luck and have fun.

 

[Richard A]

First question I would ask is have you calibrated your screen?

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

First question I would ask is have you calibrated your screen?

I don't even know if that's possible on my Microsoft Surface tablet

 

[Phil Vetra]

I made sure the right paper size and type (photo paper - glossy) were selected, but there isn't much faff with the drivers nowadays.

ICC printer profiles is key for all the different papers.

 

[AlphaWorld]

ICC printer profiles is key for all the different papers.

I haven't been printing for some years (my favourite paper was Ilford's Gold Fibre Silk - but that hasn't been available for quite a while), but when I was, all the big paper manufacturers had profiles you could download for their papers on a variety of printers (like a profile for Gold Fibre Silk on an Epson 3880, for example).

At least one of the companies selling calibration hardware would tell you that "no, you should make your own profiles" but I was happy with the results from the downloaded profiles. Tried making my own profile a couple of times, but it's a tedious process!