Printing problems

[daylightNinja]

hi everyone,
I'm having quite a hard time with my printer. I've spent quite a long time colouring on Photoshop CS1 with different levels of colours. Unfortunately, the printer just prints dull base colours, linework and some highlights. Very little brush detail. The whole thing looks very bland.

Every time i print it says: "some postscript specific print settings (Emulsion, Interpolation, Calibration, Encoding) will be ignored since you are printing to a non-Postscript printer."

As i don't know what a postscript printer is, I don't know what it's trying to tell me. Is there a way to fix this problem? If not, do you recommend me getting a postscript printer? If so, what type? I'm working with a Canon IP500 here.

Thanks very much for you time.

[Snarfevs]

Hi - I had a look around - I assume you have an ip5000 printer as I could not find any ip500. Postscript is a page descriptor language readable by printers and used to compose print pages. Lack of postscript support may not be the cause of your problems however - check to make sure that large parts of your image aren't outside the CMYK gamut and tweak paper settings if possible, making sure that the paper setting matches what is actually in the tray.

You may want to try printing on photo paper as well. It's expensive but looks great.

What application are you printing from? If it's photoshop or painter, you'll get better results by posting in the corresponding subforum.

[daylightNinja]

sorry about that...forgot that extra zero.

I'm working and printing from Photoshop. I was colouring in RGB mode, so I changed it to CMYK. Lo and behold the picture changes from bright and colourful to dull, looking a lot like what was printed. In CMYK mode, I made things look bright again, so I printed it on photopaper. It looks a lot better, so thanks very much for that suggestion!

How do you change paper settings and what do you mean exactly by a corresponding subform?

Apologies for the stupid questions and thanks again.