Canon CP330 and direct printing

[fatsteve]

Question for the PH masses, particularly those that own one of Canon's postcard printers.

On the whole I'm very impressed with the results. My only gripe is that the output is a bit blueish and not particularly vivid.

I'm using the standard colour settings on my 300D and having printed some images with the CP330 and compared them to prints done professionally, the CP330 ones are very blueish. To me this would seem that the issue is not with the camera but rather with the CP330.

When using CP330 with a PC, it's not a real issue since I can fettle with the colours in PS and on the print properties screen. However, there appears to be no way of doing this with the CP330 in direct-connection mode.

It may sound like a trivial request, but I rather like the idea of printing straight from the camera, ie completely unadulterated and pure images (since anyone can take a crap picture and enhance it in PS - hmm, that'll be me!!)

Any thoughts....

Steve

[simpo two]

Not strictly my territory but does the 300D have options for colour profiles? For direct printing I think you need sRGB.

[fatsteve]

Thanks Simpo,

Yes it does, however, my (limited) understanding is that these are capture settings rather than printing settings. Hence messing with these might allow me to print OK to the 330, but could stuff my images if I wanted to print elsewhere.

However, I have been fiddling with those settings tonight!!

Steve

[fatsteve]

Rats,

Just tried that and no effect (as assumed), there are a number of colour options on the 300D but they only affect capture, hence I don't really want to faff around with those since the image colours are OK if I get then done professionally.

As a matter of interest, I assume the colour settings are NOT embedded in the image, rather they are applied to the raw image as it's converted to JPEG by the camera.

Perhaps there's scope for shooting in RAW?

Steve