Images as Watermarks coming out too intense with a colour cast.

[DavidDoesAffinity]

Here I am trying to be subtle, designing a DVD sleeve for a project nearing completion and the idea was that a couple of old photos would be used as what I would call watermarks. Using Publisher and Photo on the PC the screen image is sublimely subtle, or in Essex speak "looks well bloody good".

The print out produces images much darker and have a red tinge.

I have tried reimporting them as Grey 16 but they still are way less than acceptable.

Any words of wisdom or should I scrap subtlety and change the design and have a beer?

I would add that the background across the whole page is a silk texture that I have switched off. ie it's currently white.

[walt.farrell]

What color space is your document, and your photos? What kind of printer are you using? 

[DavidDoesAffinity]

Hi Walt

Apologies for the delayed reply. Colour space would have been the default profile from a template I made when I started using Publisher. Attached

Printer is a Brother Laser L8260. Sadly there are black holes in my knowledge of print colour space. Video ... 35 years experience but sadly a local print shop that could have helped me sort this, closed last year ironically 3 weeks ahead of the Covid lockdown.

EDIT: As a test this morning I printed the sleeve in 3 layers. 1 Background in colour, 2 overlay "watermarks" in B&W and 3 the rest of the layers in colour.

PIA for sure BUT it now looks as we envisaged it