My troubleshooting might help you though it didnt help me. Pick a color profile for your monitor. and your printer ( same) and your picture program The picture program printer settings should be set to MATCH a device ( Ie your monitor) Ive never had problems editing and printing pictures until I hit XP with a Lexmark printer. The new All IN ONE sucks supreme and shuts down the window every time I try to set the color profile. INstalls dont help. I never had any problem exactly matching color and print with my old printer on WINME. Though saved pictures are perfect.. they print out really pink and with very little saturation. Copied to disk and taken to a shop.. it prints the same way.PINK. I thought it was a Lexmark Cartridge problem but seeing as how the piicture is saving right, it still wont print on another machine right either. All LOOK sperfect until printed. I have concluded that siomethings wrong with the way XP saves the color profile PER picture. I cant figure this out (yet) but if anybody has suggestions I sure would like to hear em. Other than that the print and MATCH instructions I gave you work on ANY other windows os I have ever had to print pictures exactly how they look on your screen. A computer is a perfectionist's nightmare.

I'm an advanced amateur photographer and have been using XP for my photography work with absolutely no difficulty. I think your blame on XP may be misplaced. How are the images being captures -- from a digital camera? scanner? commercially made photo CD? By the way, at the present time I primarily use Photoshop CS, ThumbsPlus 7, and Epson 870 and 1270 photo printers.

What editing software are you using [Elements.Paintshop]? I had a similar problem in Elements 2.0

Well... could be the graphics card I guess. I have gone in depth trying to figure out why this is happening. Its awfull agrrevating cause the pictures edit fine and show fine.. but my printer nor a copyshop printer printed it correctly. I tried it in both Paint shop Pro and Corel. Ive never had a problem like this on 98 or winme. Gill Bates what solved your problem??? *s* A computer is a perfectionist's nightmare.

I went from perfect pictures for 4 years[prints-websites] when using windows ME. New PC with windows XP= totally crap prints and pictures sent to my website that looked like Michael Jackson handled them.[Really Bad]. I had to check the box for no color management in Elements to get back the quality. Also, There were boxes that were cut off in Elements because of my screen resolution [although these boxes were completely visable using windows ME with the same monitor. XP certainly does see thing differently than ME.. I wish you luck. I know how fustrating your problem can be....Gill

Thank y ou Gill Bates.. Ill give that a shot. If it works I will be totally impressed. I never thought to disable that. A computer is a perfectionist's nightmare.

I run several computers on a network and have been switching from Windows 2000 to XP. I've not had problems with my Kodak 8660 printer, but my Epson 7600 has been a nightmare! I cannot get the printer to recoginize the profiles - like you, my prints are coming out pink and flat. We've tried everything - we've deleted our profiles and reloaded them. We've updated the printer driver, we've recalibrated the monitor several times (silly, but we are running out of ideas). We always select "no color adjustment" under advanced settings - we've even tried choosing some of the other options, to no avail. The first computer we switched to XP did this, but the other lab computer still running on 2000 was okay. We didn't realize it was an XP problem and switched the other computer - which is now doing the same thing. Now, even the one Window's 2000 computer we can still access this printer with seems to be screwed (however, it was never calibrated or set up to work with this printer, so maybe the problems I am having with it are something else). Yesterday I got two prints to work, so I thought I had done something to solve the problem, but today I am back to pink!!!! This is definately a Window's XP problem!! Anymore ideas? Cindy