Re: Printing screen captures

[Ginger Booth]

Hi, Doug,

    If you're open to a more expensive solution, one thing I did to get
photo-ready output for some Gecko images was to send a diskette of the images to
a photo lab and get 8.5x11 color glossies (or half pages) back. This photo lab
does a lot of stuff for the biology dept. in printing PhotoShop output of, say,
annotated photos of comparative mustard weed root hairs for publication, etc.
I'm sure your dept. (whoever does that kind of thing) knows a photo lab and
tricks. This may be the only good solution if your pictures need deposition of
large dark areas.

    The photo lab may need your jpg's translated to tiff's. Sending along your
printer output with annotations as to what's not good enough about it should
help them tune the output.

    Like Jan, my color pictures didn't survive the journal production people....

Best of luck,
    Ginger

donalson wrote:

> I am preparing a paper for Ecological Modelling and have run a problem
> printing color screen shots.  I have a number of jpg color images that
> were either captured by one of the X-win utilities or by Corel Draw in
> Win 98.  They all look really great when displayed but when printed on
> my new HP880c look very washed out.  (Print priview is fine.)  The
> pictures are very similar to the Heatbug displays with 32 shades of red
> representing agent density in each cell (as opposed to heat.)  The
> printer does other jpgs quite nicely, and I have tried my pictures with
> two other editors and the result is the same (washed out.)  I take this
> to mean that it is something inherent in the jpg that doesn't translate
> well.  I am wondering if it might even be that 32 intensities of red is
> too much for a (relativily) inexpensive printer.
>
> Has anyone out there tried to print a screen captured heatbug type
> image?  If so have you been successful and how?
>
> As long as I am asking questions, what is the best way to reference
> SWARM when writing the paper.  No one seems to be progressive enough yet
> to accept web addresses as a reference and I don't know of the
> "consumate" published SWARM paper/reference.
>
> Cheers,
>
>     Doug
>
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