Unwanted colour when printing

[NigelD]

I have an image which a friend would like printing here but the underside of the bomber and small parts of the hurricane and spitfire are showing up with red, which I take it is from the high ISO I took it at. My printer and monitor are calibrated but I can't seem to shift the redness on the print. It looks acceptable on the monitor and website. Help appreciated please folks.

[chauncey]

Clone or Spot Removal tool.

[NigelD]

Clone or spot removal won't help - the image I linked to is the original and the one here is a copy of the print showing total redness - I think you were of the opinion that the red I wanted rid of was the plane light underneath. Should have posted this to start with to help.

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[Mark von Kanel]

can you mail the file?

[NigelD]

See PM.

[Mark von Kanel]

Hi Nigel,

ive just printed rough n ready allowing PS to manage the colours with no paper ink profile because im at work and i have no cast at all. you need to look to your printer and profiles/print settings i think.

scanned pic below

Theres nothing wrong with the raw file.

What software are you using?

it looks like youve applied some sort of filter to it to me....

[Manfred M]

Now that is rather bizarre. It almost looks like a screen capture with a mask applied to the planes . This is not a high ISO issue at all.

[NigelD]

Hi Nigel,

ive just printed rough n ready allowing PS to manage the colours with no paper ink profile because im at work and i have no cast at all. you need to look to your printer and profiles/print settings i think.

scanned pic below

Theres nothing wrong with the raw file.

What software are you using?

it looks like youve applied some sort of filter to it to me....

Thanks Mark, I was using CS6 and duplicated the BG then put into screen mode to brighten the planes, then selective colour adjustment to darken the sky back down, then smart sharpened.

[NigelD]

It looks like it Manfred but wasn't. I took it at ISO800, 1/4000 sec which I've used before without any problem. Back to the drawing board I think. Thanks guys.

[Mark von Kanel]

Nigel,

just try printing without any edits, at least then youll know weather its the editing or the print settings

[Manfred M]

I think it must be a software issue, as when I open the file in Camera RAW, it looks fine:



Have you checked the ink flow of your printer? Clogged nozzles can result in some rather weird results.

[NigelD]

I thought that Manfred and have checked but no problems there - I'm stumped.

[Manfred M]

I thought that Manfred and have checked but no problems there - I'm stumped.

This is really starting to look like a printer issue to me. Are your other prints coming out okay?

If it's not an ink supply issue, I'd start looking at the printer settings. If you are using a colour managed workflow, then somehow the data that Lightroom is sending over to the printer is being misinterpreted and the wrong colours are being printed. I assume you are using an RGB rather than CMYK setting?

[NigelD]

Printer issue it was guys - have been through the colour settings and a couple of things seem to have got changed somehow. I wasn't expecting that. I don't change settings as a rule and that's what threw me. No more red cast.

Thanks very much for your input.