Background color tinting photos

[Spin]

I'm having trouble with my photos being tinted with the background color. It seems to happen on photos with regular and decreased opacity. This is especially a problem with my black & white photos. I've also wondered if it is a problem with the color-communication between the computer and the printer because on the screen everything looks perfect, but when I print it out, the background color has infiltrated into the photos.

I'm using PhotoShop Elements 3 (mac) and an Epson Photo R800 printer.

[Starling]

I use Photoshop CS and the Epson R800 photo printer too. I am not having any problems with this combination that sound anything like yours. I would guess that your problems are software based, and not hardware based.

By the way, I would expect background bleed through a photo where the opacity is not at 100%.

[Goofmanami]

Yes, if you have a layer that is set below full opacity, you will naturally see whatever bg color is behind it. Could possibly be you are out of some ink in your printer too :)

[Starling]

It is unlikely that the R800 is out of ink. It is one of the printers that has 8 ink cartridges. Epson printers simply won't print if one of the cartridges doesn't have enough ink to print the page that was ordered.

[4guysandme]

what color are you printing onto? what color is bleeding through?

[Spin]

Whatever color I've chosen for my background is the color that bleeds through the photos (which I expect on the decreased opacity ones, but not the regular opacity ones).

Since the colors and photos look perfect on the screen, I'm starting to suspect it might be a color management problem between the computer and the printer. The ink levels in the printer are fine and I've run cleaning and test runs on the printer. I might try hunting down color management/ColorSync adjustment info on the Apple, Adobe, and Epson sites.

Thanks for the suggestions.