Can you print the color palette?

[Marjorie]

I have a Lexmark color laser, C710. Obviously, what I see on the screen in
Publisher is some-what different than what actually prints. Is there any way
to print the color palette?

Thanks for reading, folks!

Marjorie

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Marjorie,

Which part of the pallette. Each Office app supports
16 million colors and there is support through MS Publisher
for CMYK printing, not supported on screen well in the
Office apps and the MS GDI+ engine used in the Office apps
and in Windows XP does have sometimes seem to ignore the
Windows color matching, but 100% color match between print
and screen isn't always easy to achieve consistently in
apps that mix both text and graphic and editing.

You may want to check with the folks in the MS Publisher
newsgroup (link below) as well and include the version
of Publisher you're using. Using a macro to print sample
sheets, or to use a graphic of color samples
http://www.bagism.com/colormaker/images/palette-original.gif
to print and then use with a color picker onscreen app such as Pixie
http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html to read screen colors
for monitor adjustment are some methods that may help.


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I have a Lexmark color laser, C710. Obviously, what I see on the screen in
Publisher is some-what different than what actually prints. Is there any way
to print the color palette?

Thanks for reading, folks!

Marjorie>>
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LLet us know if this has helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP
*courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends8

A. Specific newsgroup/discussion group mentioned in this message:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.publisher
or via browser:
http://microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/?dg=microsoft.public.publisher

B. MS Office Community discussion/newsgroups via Web Browser
http://microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx
or
Microsoft hosted newsgroups via Outlook Express/newsreader
news://msnews.microsoft.com

 

[ferdy]

Hello Majorie. I too have this problem with both my HP printers now I have
XP these are office jet not laser printers. See my correspndence with Bob I
on page 46 of this discussion Group dated 19 April 2005 re 'Colour matching'.
I have Office Small Business 2003, and for me the problem occurs in Word,
Publisher and Powerpoint. If you look through the communities this problem
is being referred to regularly. Epson printers are referred too as well. My
drivers are up to date, my cartridges are full, the self test looks perfect,
but when I come to do actual work that I have produced using the various
applications it looks completely different from what I see on screen. HP
have told me that it is not their problem but a bug in XP - and that they
want nothing to do with it.
Bob - sorry - but I dont understand what you have written to Marjorie. Is
this a way of getting round my problem please. My business depends on the
ability to print out colours that are the same as they are on the monitor?

thanks
ferdy

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Ferdy,

There isn't a single, click here setting that is going
to work on every computer to help match the colors
on screen and in print that I'm aware of.

With Windows and GDI+ and using different color rendering
palettes/color production methods for printing and onscren display,
and different driver/rendering printing engine types, the colors
may be close on screen and in print but there isn't an
easy way to get them to always precisely match in the two display
media, more obvious at times in mixed content files,
such as Word and Excel or Powerpoint.
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00018.htm
than in a pure graphics app. (That link has a MS Powerpoint
color print tester link as well). Part of the problem
may be within Windows or the Office apps.

Sometimes changing the ICM/ICC palette can help,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;282897&Product=winxp
but it doesn't seem to do as well as with MS's older
graphics rendering engine.

On screen displays can have more vibrant colors with the
screen technology in some cases, printers can be set
to not always use their 'best' quality and color will look
different on different brightness and finishes of paper,
plus adjustments to your screen's brightness and contrast
settings don't carry over to the printed choice.

If you use the Pixie eyedropper tool mentioned in the previous message
and use a color from the basic pallette such as blue does
the tool detect the correct RGB color match pattern?
If you print an item colored blue then scan it back in
how far off is the color value? You may be able to tweak
for example the monitor's gamma setting for that particular
screen to match after already having everyone use the same
graphics display adapter driver and version and monitor setting
for color resolution.
http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/colorcalibration/a/cal_monitor.htm
or you may be able to calibrate the printer colors with an
ICC profile
http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/colorcalibration/a/cal_printer.htm
but it may also require the addition of 3rd party software that
works at making the screen and print colors match if you need
precise control if none of the techniques above or here work
http://www.signindustry.com/digital/articles/2004-06-01-GIA-MonitorCalibration.php3


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Hello Majorie. I too have this problem with both my HP printers now I have
XP these are office jet not laser printers. See my correspndence with Bob I
on page 46 of this discussion Group dated 19 April 2005 re 'Colour matching'.
I have Office Small Business 2003, and for me the problem occurs in Word,
Publisher and Powerpoint. If you look through the communities this problem
is being referred to regularly. Epson printers are referred too as well. My
drivers are up to date, my cartridges are full, the self test looks perfect,
but when I come to do actual work that I have produced using the various
applications it looks completely different from what I see on screen. HP
have told me that it is not their problem but a bug in XP - and that they
want nothing to do with it.
Bob - sorry - but I dont understand what you have written to Marjorie. Is
this a way of getting round my problem please. My business depends on the
ability to print out colours that are the same as they are on the monitor?

thanks
ferdy>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx