Canon bubblejet priniting

EireRoadUser

I just got a canon ip5200 and can't seem to get the pictures i want from my pc.
When i use pictbridge direct from camera they seem to be fine.

My problem is faces look powdered and shading has not got much gradiant to it.
Anyone know what the craic is?

Yv

Odd, I have the same printer & haven't had the same problem. I haven't used the PictBridge & have only printed from the PC but the quality seems fine.

I did notice similar shading & skin issues when I printed out some images I'd taken with a digital camera (most images I print are from scanned film negatives); maybe there's a compression issue? What I figure was the problem with me was that the camera saves an image as .jpg which is compressed (ie some data lost to make the file smaller), then when transferred to a computer & opened & maybe resaved as .jpg more data is lost which means poor shadow quality, gradient quality etc as that's the first to go. When printing direct from a camera this wouldn't happen; also when I print from my scanned images, since I save them as .tif or .png which are uncompressed. Sorry if I'm rambling btw :v:

So I'd say try saving the images as .png if you're resaving them on computer after diddling about with them with any kind of editing software, or as .jpg with the least compression possible.

Of course, I could be completely wrong here...

EireRoadUser

thanks a lot
i was actually thinking the same thing ,but when you buy something new your brain isn't always on the picture at hand.
I was thinking of shooting in raw mode from now on as it seems to be the basecoat for finished images.
Appreciate your reply ,
thanks.

Yv

No problem