What color is this picture?

[nancylebov]

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061016.html

which is Saturn's eclipse of the sun, as seen by the Cassini probe. It's shades of purple on my monitor, but prints out in shades of teal. What color does it look like to you?

My printer won't work if I'm out of an ink color, so lacking blue or red can't be the explanation.

I just tried printing the Christmas products from the Purple Store, and they came out purple.

It doesn't matter--the eclipse is an exaggerated color image anyway, but I've never seen my printer show just a strong aesthetic preference.

Update: My printer is a Canon S750. Would anyone care to try printing it? Have any of you had your printer completely change the color of an image rather than just doing a somewhat wimpy or off shade?

Comments

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Purple shading to grey/pink. No green tones at all.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

On my monitor, it's largely purples and browns. The darkest parts of the picture are blue.

[madfilkentist]

It's more blue than purple on my monitor, and some spots are definitely greenish. Data: I have an iMac with an LCD screen, and haven't calibrated it in years. (I think I had the same computer when I was contracting for a company that did color calibration software, but their software didn't work very well with LCD monitors at the time.)

[thespian.livejournal.com]

it's shades of smokey blue, a tiny bit purple at the edges. I calibrate the monitor to print colours every time I do a print job, so 4 days ago for an ad for the Weekly Dig.

[cathyr19355.livejournal.com]

It looks like mostly shades of purple to me too. Unfortunately, I have a black-and-white printer, so my printing it out would tell you nothing.