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Printed Comparison Judd
For some Christmas this year I’ve decided to print and frame some of my photos and give them away as gifts. One of the sets I did was a set of four 4x6 black and white photos. I started off by seeing how they would come out on my printer, a Lexmark X3350 with glossy photo paper. I thought they turned out pretty well. It really over emphasized the black giving it a deeper feel.

The printer didn’t print out the color photos as well as I would’ve liked so I went down to the nearby FedEx Kinko’s to print them out on their Sony print machine toodad. For the hell of it, I printed out the black and white photos to see how they would turn out.

They definitely came out differently, and I’m debating on whether or not to call them worse or not. They blacks didn’t come out as strongly but there were more details (such as the building in the upper right of the second example picture).

I thought I’d scan them in and show off the differences here and look for opinions about printing photographs and how different printing procedures can change the feel of a photo. I wish that sometime in the future I could take a black and white photo to a place and have the printing procedure make the same accidental changes.

Note that my scanner doesn’t do the justice of actually looking at the different versions printed out. Although, for the most part, it is a respectable representation of the differences in brightness and contrast. Any odd color tint changes are the result of the scanner.
>> Judd
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Example # 2...

Note the details in the building in the upper right. On the home printed version you can only notice how the ink sort of blotched like that in certain angles and the right light. Normally it appears like straight black under the first ledge where if you look closely you can just make out a difference between the bricks and the grout.
>> Anonymous
Looks like you need to calibrate your monitor. Also, if you want some nice looking prints, find a lab with a frontier or lightjet printer.
>> Anonymous
the reason it's slightly green is you need to change the PRINTER to print ONLY b+w

I had this problem too. Printing B+W with normal settings leaves that green tint.
>> Anonymous
>>32773

how calibrate monitor I do?
>> ?00 !XBOXgikTFw
>>33123
Powerstrip. Or if you just want to view the pics in PS, look around in View - Proof Colors.