Enhancing colors on a crappy sticker project paper

[chiappa]

Hi. Thanks for having me here.

I'm trying to print out a bunch of stickers using Photoshop CS5 and a Brother MFC-265C printer. Problem is that sticker paper seems to be bad in quality/very thin thus the colors comes off very dull. Any tips on how to maximize brilliant colors? I'm using CMYK colors.

The actual image:



What I'm getting:



Thanks!

 

[Fatboy73]

Well for one, that red is WAY out of gamut, meaning that a printer simply cannot produce that color so it will print out the nearest equivalent. That could be the main reason for your problem. Next I would check ink levels and switch to a gloss or semi gloss paper finish. See if that helps.

 

[ibis]

use rgb mode for the image
be sure you have chosen right paper type and printing quality.
if the sticker paper is kind of glossy, you may try to set your printer options like on high resolution paper.
most of the nowdays printers (inkjet) should be able to do photo printing quality (and spend a lot of ink)
second issue may be the grainy paper ant it ghas got its limits.
set up your printer and youll be just fine.