[Cynthia Daniel]

Regarding your HP932C, I have the same printer and I've been quite happy with the print quality. You might consider the following:

In "file | page setup", are you selecting "best" for your print quality? You'll have to reset it each time you print from your program unless you have that set as your default in Windows.

If you wanted to set the default to "best", do this: Windows start button | settings | printers. Right click your printer, in the menu, select "properties" and then click the tab called "setup". This is where you can select "best" as a default. The reason to not use best as the default is that it uses more ink. Just depends on your printing habits and needs.

(2) Perhaps you're not scanning your images at a high enough dpi. I scan 8x10's at 300 dpi, smaller photos at an even high dpi. Even if the image is larger than your paper, you usually have the option to size it down to fit the paper.

(3) Have you tried printing on photo quality paper? The colors are much richer.

(4) This may not be true with you, but I find for printing, I have to make the image much darker than what looks good on the monitor.