Better Color Printing to HP DeskJet Printer

[gwpriester]

I was doing some prints from my HP Deskjet printer and the colors were too light. I decided to try printing with some different Color Options in the Color section of my printer software.

I tried all the options (there weren't all that many) and the one that worked best for me was Color Smart/sRGB. The color prints were very very close to my screen colors.

[AndFarr]

Can you supply a link to the Officejet 6500?
I can't seem to find any reference information on that model. HP doesn't seem to acknowledge its existence.
I have a a HP Officejet 5400, but I wanted to see if the two printers are comparable before doing a test.
Thanks,
- Andy

[RTW1]

I have also found that HPs own colour printer setting, with some programs can produce better prints, than using colour managed settings with full profiles.
At the moment I have a HP90 and HP9180 printers.

[steve.ledger]

Can you supply a link to the Officejet 6500?
I can't seem to find any reference information on that model. HP doesn't seem to acknowledge its existence.

Andy, Deskjet, not Officejet

HP Deskjet 6500 series User Guide 3.05MB
HP Deskjet 6500 series setup poster 5.82MB

[gwpriester]

The settings would be in the Printer Setup dialog.

You can access these setting either from File > Printer Setup > Properties... or from the Print dialog, Printer: > Properties.... Try the different settings and see which setting works best.

I would have thought that Application Managed Color would have been more accurate since I was printing out of Xtreme but that setting produced a denser and darker color with a hard shift towards red.

[AndFarr]

Oops! my mistake. Thank you Steve.
- Andy