Change the colors a printer prints

dvdfan

Hi,

Im printing onto transparent paper and all the colors come out great except for White, pink and lighter colors like skies etc

Its weird because if i make a solid blue square, a solid white square and a solid blacnk square the black and blue print but it looks like it just didnt print the white at all and looks transparent yet if i put in a blue peice of paper in and dont change the settings it prints the white over the blue.

This is special tranparent film paper that glues onto crystals btw so im looking for a way to darken the color, i dont have access to another icc profile and the only options is to change the R G B but im not sure what way to slide them to make it print darker whites and darker light colors without messing up all the other colors? Any ideas where to start

oisin

White doesn't print. You don't say what kind of printer you're using so I presume it's an inkjet. Most printers use cyan, magenta, yellow and black inks to print. So by changing the densities of the dots and mixing the four colours you can achieve many colours. However this doesn't explain how you manged to print white on blue paper.

Since most printing is done on white paper, no ink dots are printed in the white areas. You will have to manipulate the colours in an image editing or vector editing application and do some test prints to get the colours you want.