Inkjet printing help needed

[djstorm]

I've got an Epson Photo R200 inkjet printer. I'm trying to print out a bunch of wedding photos and stuff, and the printouts look like crap!!! I used to have a crappy little HP 932c, and the pics were way better. I'm just printing using the windows photo printer, so I can easily print 9 wallet size shots per page. Here's the issue, on a full page of prints, I've got all different printout quality's. It's like some are printing at full res, and some are being dummied down. Is there a setting I can change to force it to take its time and print right? I don't think the issue is with the printer, I think for some reason my computer is sending bad info. The best way I can describe it is that on some pics it looks like there are the full 16 million colors (or whatever) and some look like they only have 4 million, or 256 or whatever. Don't know what to do, help?!? Full system: P4 3.2, 1 gig ram, Canon sd500 camera, epson photo r200 printer, premium photo paper. Thoughts?? Here is an "example" of how it looks on the printout...

[bart]

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i got a new photo printer fs, $150

[stefan]

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what software are you printing from? and picture format? also, make sure you have the latest greatest drivers for the printer.

[forreal]

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i might be wrong but arent inkjet printers differnt from photo printers?

i baught a hp 1510 from superstore for like $130 and the photos it prints are awesome. i always thought inkjet printers were just for like printing documents and stuff

[stefan]

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ya gots inkjet, and ya gots laser... photo is just high res inkjet. in my experience, colour matching is still better with inkjet as opposed to laser.

[R_Ethug]

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yea any day of the week for sure.. but honestly printing photos on an inkjet is sort of a waste of money especially if you buy the photo cartridge cuz you'll burn through ink like crazy.. if i want my digitals made i just take them to walmart or whatever..

[stefan]

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yea any day of the week for sure.. but honestly printing photos on an inkjet is sort of a waste of money especially if you buy the photo cartridge cuz you'll burn through ink like crazy.. if i want my digitals made i just take them to walmart or whatever..

agreed, i used walmart last time.

[djstorm]

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done. wally-mart it is. f#ck this. however - I should be able to print them just fine. I'm printing from the windows photo viewer - has always worked fine before. even if i print from illustrator, photoshop, jasc, the printouts are always the same...

[djstorm]

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this is how they look when I print them...

http://www.newveedub.com/forums/atta...tid=1428&stc=1

[R_Ethug]

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lol buy a new printer that does more than 200dpi then

[djstorm]

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yeah - except its only one or two out of 5 prints that looks like that, the rest print out perfectly. riddle me that smart a$$!

[Aleks]

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R200 is a great printer, shouldn't have that problem, I can't think of why thats happening other than somewhere in the communication something goes bad...

[djstorm]

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yeah, i'm not sure either...it's like not enough memory is being provided to spool it or something...this sounds really bad, but looking at the printout really closely, I'm thinking maybe I got a bad batch of paper...I put here it under the microscope and I can see spots where the ink has "pooled together". I'm gonna go get new paper this afternoon and try again...go figure.

[djstorm]

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it's official.. it was the paper. all is good. thanks for everyones help...