Feedback solicited

[Fox Paw]

In the last few days the color balance in my prints has looked ghastly. I have one theory that faults the printer and another that faults the monitor. I reason that if it's the monitor, the pictures will look weird to others as well.

Sorry to intrude on the gallery with a test, but I'd appreciate knowing if the color balance on this one seems out of whack. I don't mean "are there fine points that need correcting?" The print of this one looks really awful but on the monitor it looks fine to me. Thanks for any help.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f29/CornflakeAZ/Bigrocktwo-1.jpg

[invisible]

The colour balance looks perfect on my monitor. (It's not calibrated, though.)

[Fox Paw]

Thanks, invisible. The printer it is.

[Terri]

The colour balance looks perfect on my monitor. (It's not calibrated, though.)Same here; I think you're right about the printer, Fox. :)

Good luck!

[Fox Paw]

Thanks for the help, Terri.

[Aggie]

on my monitor the greens seem to yellow and light. The reds of the rocks (I live in the same type rock country) seem a little washed out and not very colorful. But this may be my monitor.

[Fox Paw]

Aggie, I know what you mean, but it wasn't such little discrepancies that I was seeing in the prints. (And this area isn't red-rock country.) I'd get areas where it looked like someone had increased the saturation on the greens past all tolerance.

I think the culprit is the print cartridge. I bought a new one last weekend. Office Max had a generic replacement for the HP cartridge available for 25 percent less. The cartridges are so expensive I decided to try it. Because I'd been adjusting the monitor and trying new processing techniques at the same time, I initially placed the blame elsewhere. I'll go buy the right cartridge and see if that solves the problem.