On Apr 6, 1:22 am, Tony wrote:
wrote:
On Apr 5, 5:29 pm, measekite wrote:
Tony :On Apr 5, 4:42 am, Arthur
wrote:With all this talk of special inkjet
papers, what kind of paper are you using?I was just testing with plain
paper.Generally printing photos on plain paper produces disappointing results,

measekite wrote:
What kind of idiot that makes believe he is a photographer would print
results on plain paper even if the person does a snapshot with a
pinhole camera.usually very pale.

Changing the driver settings won't help very much. You would be well
advised to buy a small amount of photo quality paper and try the
printer with that, making sure you use photo quality settings in the
application or driver. You may be very pleasantly surprised since this
printer can produce very high quality output. Tony MS MVP Printing/
Imaging

Smedly writes:
I didn't buy it considering the "photo paper only" possible aspect of
the printer. I didn't buy it strictly for printing photos.
I bought it for all around use. I didn't see anywhere in my reading
where it wouldn't be good for general color picture and color printer
use. If it is such then I'll have to deal with it and get a "color
printer" as opposed to a "photo printer."
I had an HP 960c that made quite nice color prints on plain paper and
very high quality prints on photo paper.
If the printer is only made for photo quality paper than that's my
hard luck as I bought it for all around color printing. If it takes
photo paper to get a deep color print th that is what i will use if
printing a flyer or such on the printer.
As I said, it makes a pretty decent print now in wallet size om plain
paper from a 1 megapixel photo file.

I wasn't implying that it is a Photo only printer, only that photos will be at
their best when using photo paper. It should produce good all round colour
output. Testing 1 megapixel photos on plain paper at anything larger than
default size (wallet or smaller) will not be great in my opinion. Any decent
photo printer should produce good non photo results (this is a decent printer)
but the original image is always going to be a limiting factor. Good luck in
your endeavours. I think someone suiggested you may have a colour cartridge
problem, well worth considering also.
Tony
MS MVP Printing/Imaging


I've printed the 1 megapix photos thru Windows viewed thru Netscape
and the saturation is fine (even for plain paper) at print preview
100% which is 864 x 1152 pixels, Scaled 46%.
The problem of fading has only happened when using the Easy Photoprint
software that loaded to my Desktop when I loaded the printer drivers.
So, it appears the problem is restricted to that software.
When I see the image in either EasyP or Netscape on the monitor they
look fine.
There are very few photo manipulation functions in EasyP.
I must search on screen software manual now for more....