Thanks for the suggestion to change the printer setting to "light. This did help quite a bit. By the way, calibrating my monitor seems irrelevant when using Affinity photo two, since I can't find any way to chose my monitor's color profile to print ...
By the way, prior to this canon printer, I used an Hp wide format printer for 17 years with no problems, until the part that moves the ink cartridge back and forth broke. I took it to be repaired, but it would cost almost as much as buying a new prin...
I went through the steps to calibrate my monitor. Strangely, there is no way for me to adjust contrast. I'm not sure how to check the ICC profile, but I do choose the correct paper when printing. I understand about choosing either printer or photo ed...
Perhaps it is too late to add to this topic. My canon pixma iP8720 has been printing photos that are much darker than what is on my computer screen. I have used 3 different computers, windows 10 and 11, adobe photoshop and affinity 1 and 2. Until I c...