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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BF Hammer" data-source="post: 755195" data-attributes="member: 48483">OK, my profession is printer service tech. I have been trained in much color theory. The short answer to your question is that your printer does not know how to make all the colors of your monitor.A more in-depth answer: your computer display is direct light, and your prints are using reflected light. Direct light is using Red, Green, and Blue and blending them in different proportions to make the color you see (ignoring luminance for now). Reflected light is a completely different beast. We are using Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow (ignoring black for shading) and blending them to make the image. For starters, the light source colors the image, the paper itself has whiteness and texture which also colors the image. Then there is the fact that the 2 media are using different color tables and translating between them. Different printers printing the same photo will also give different results, no matter how calibrated you think it is, or if you are using matched color profiles. You can make the image close in your prints by experimentation, but exact match is unattainable. Buy a new printer, and you start again from scratch.I have untold number of clients who refuse to believe any of that, and I won't expect all who read this to do so either. But it is the bitter truth.</blockquote>