casterle Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 Windows 11, latest release versions of the Affinity products. Let me preface this by saying that although I've been using Affinity products for some time, I've never tried to print anything and am struggling to get what I see on my screen onto paper. Here's what I've done... In AD, I created a CMYK/8 document at 600 DPI (as that is my printer's native resolution). I'm printing to a Canon MF630 color laser printer, using the latest printer drivers w/correct profile selected. I printed to standard office paper and chose U. S. Sheetfed Uncoated V2 as the profile. The document is a proposed logo for our church, attached (I am in no way a designer and make no claim as to the quality of the design). I've tried printing using all four Rendering Intents, and I printed each using Color Handling by the printer as well as by Designer. I didn't see much (if any) difference amongst the results. The printed images are not only too dark, but I see too much red & even brown in the gradient. Have I configured something incorrectly in the document? Could I improve things if I used a better/different paper? I've spent many hours & wasted too much paper and ink trying to figure this out on my own, so I turn to the experts for assistance. Scaled Logo.afdesign Quote Windows 11 Pro, XP-Pen Deco 03, AP, AD & APub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 One issue for you may be that the Affinity applications will convert to RGB for printing. You may have better results if you export your CMYK file to PDF, then print the PDF using a different application, such as Acrobat Reader. casterle 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.1.2, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.1.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casterle Posted April 22, 2022 Author Share Posted April 22, 2022 On 4/19/2022 at 3:31 PM, walt.farrell said: One issue for you may be that the Affinity applications will convert to RGB for printing. You may have better results if you export your CMYK file to PDF, then print the PDF using a different application, such as Acrobat Reader. Thanks for the info. Exporting to PDF lightened the colors up a tad, but they're still too reddish-brown. I'll try creating the document as RGB and see what happens. Quote Windows 11 Pro, XP-Pen Deco 03, AP, AD & APub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardMH Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 Do you have a local Department store that prints? If so, print them through them. Usually only costs a few cents for a 4X6. If the colours are OK its your printer. If the colours are still bad its something else. casterle 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casterle Posted April 22, 2022 Author Share Posted April 22, 2022 29 minutes ago, RichardMH said: Do you have a local Department store that prints? If so, print them through them. Usually only costs a few cents for a 4X6. If the colours are OK its your printer. If the colours are still bad its something else. That's a great suggestion! Quote Windows 11 Pro, XP-Pen Deco 03, AP, AD & APub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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