Inconsistance between CS3 and Printed Output

I can adjust pictures all day long in CS3 but the printed output is coming out slightly different than what you see on the screen. First thought is calibration..... but I can pull the picture up in HP Image Zone and/or PhotoFiltre and the picture appears just as it printed. (the pictured I just PPed in CS3) What I see Image Zone and PhotoFiltre is what prints. But what I see in CS3 is slightly different, enough that it requires more work that what meets the eye in CS3.

Any hints/instructions welcome...... please.......

tonyr0584 wrote in post #4046291
I can adjust pictures all day long in CS3 but the printed output is coming out slightly different than what you see on the screen. First thought is calibration..... but I can pull the picture up in HP Image Zone and/or PhotoFiltre and the picture appears just as it printed. (the pictured I just PPed in CS3) What I see Image Zone and PhotoFiltre is what prints. But what I see in CS3 is slightly different, enough that it requires more work that what meets the eye in CS3.

Any hints/instructions welcome...... please.......

Tony. In PS... CS2 (I'm sure is similar to CS3 in this respect: ) Click on - VIEW > PROOF SET-UP > CUSTOM > Then under "DEVICE TO SIMULATE," click on your printer profile. It should present on your monitor what your print should look like on a properly calibrated monitor. Thats really all I can think of at the moment. But it just sounds like a profile issue to me.

For printing make sure you have set your colour profiles in CS3 to Adobe RGB - not sRGB!
(if you haven't done it yet go to >Edit>Color Settings...) I had many printing problems before i calibrated my screen... since then my SCREEN is my Printed Photos