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Canon Color Profiles
I have a Canon Pixma MX850 inkjet and I notice that digital photos have a
sepia or brownish/pink overtone to them using the default settings. I notice Adobe Photoshop gives you the option of using the printer's own color management or photoshop color management. Which is the preferable one to start with? In each category there are several options, ex: Printer Color Management: Driver, ICM (Standard or Adobe RGB 1998) Photoshop: Many including sRGB IEC61966, RGB 1998, and various canon profiles (Canon MX850 Series PR1, PR1, MP2 etc) How do I know which color profile to use? I have tried several but they all have poor color representation. |
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Experiment. I found the best color matching setting on my canon to be NONE.
btw, the PR is for photo paper pro, mp is for matte, sp means photo paper plus glossy. the number in the profile name is for the quality setting. Its a top secret code canon must not want anyone to use as they give no information about their profiles. If your not using canon paper you're on your own. Try manual color adjustment to get rid of the pink. "Sabian Smith" wrote in message news:CRCNj.66466$Cj7.3007@pd7urf2no... I have a Canon Pixma MX850 inkjet and I notice that digital photos have a sepia or brownish/pink overtone to them using the default settings. I notice Adobe Photoshop gives you the option of using the printer's own color management or photoshop color management. Which is the preferable one to start with? In each category there are several options, ex: Printer Color Management: Driver, ICM (Standard or Adobe RGB 1998) Photoshop: Many including sRGB IEC61966, RGB 1998, and various canon profiles (Canon MX850 Series PR1, PR1, MP2 etc) How do I know which color profile to use? I have tried several but they all have poor color representation. |
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On Apr 17, 3:18 am, "Sabian Smith" wrote:
I have a Canon Pixma MX850 inkjet and I notice that digital photos have a sepia or brownish/pink overtone to them using the default settings. I notice Adobe Photoshop gives you the option of using the printer's own color management or photoshop color management. Which is the preferable one to start with? In each category there are several options, ex: Printer Color Management: Driver, ICM (Standard or Adobe RGB 1998) Photoshop: Many including sRGB IEC61966, RGB 1998, and various canon profiles (Canon MX850 Series PR1, PR1, MP2 etc) How do I know which color profile to use? I have tried several but they all have poor color representation. In general Canon drivers do a poor job at color. Best to use Photoshop, use the print with preview screen, make sure it shows profiles etc. You want to use the profiles from Canon. Some paper manufacturers include profiles for letter sized printers but not many, Ilford seems to cover a lot of Canon printers. Anyway set you profile, set the rendering intent to perceptual or relative colormetric. Go into the printer driver and make sure the correct paper is selected, then find the color settings and make sure color management is off. This is often where problems occur and the printer gets two conflicting orders and makes a lousy print. sRGB may give a flatter looking print than aRGB from an inkjet, experiment see what works for you. Tom |
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"Sabian Smith" wrote in message news:CRCNj.66466$Cj7.3007@pd7urf2no... I have a Canon Pixma MX850 inkjet and I notice that digital photos have a sepia or brownish/pink overtone to them using the default settings. I notice Adobe Photoshop gives you the option of using the printer's own color management or photoshop color management. Which is the preferable one to start with? In each category there are several options, ex: Printer Color Management: Driver, ICM (Standard or Adobe RGB 1998) Photoshop: Many including sRGB IEC61966, RGB 1998, and various canon profiles (Canon MX850 Series PR1, PR1, MP2 etc) How do I know which color profile to use? I have tried several but they all have poor color representation. The different models vary a little. If your driver has a paper selection called "transparency", use that. I generally see pretty good matching with the Adobe RGB, but a lot depends on your paper. Also note that your monitor calibration might be at fault. |
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"tomm42" wrote in message ... On Apr 17, 3:18 am, "Sabian Smith" wrote: I have a Canon Pixma MX850 inkjet and I notice that digital photos have a sepia or brownish/pink overtone to them using the default settings. I notice Adobe Photoshop gives you the option of using the printer's own color management or photoshop color management. Which is the preferable one to start with? In each category there are several options, ex: Printer Color Management: Driver, ICM (Standard or Adobe RGB 1998) Photoshop: Many including sRGB IEC61966, RGB 1998, and various canon profiles (Canon MX850 Series PR1, PR1, MP2 etc) How do I know which color profile to use? I have tried several but they all have poor color representation. In general Canon drivers do a poor job at color. Best to use Photoshop, use the print with preview screen, make sure it shows profiles etc. You want to use the profiles from Canon. Some paper manufacturers include profiles for letter sized printers but not many, Ilford seems to cover a lot of Canon printers. Anyway set you profile, set the rendering intent to perceptual or relative colormetric. Go into the printer driver and make sure the correct paper is selected, then find the color settings and make sure color management is off. This is often where problems occur and the printer gets two conflicting orders and makes a lousy print. sRGB may give a flatter looking print than aRGB from an inkjet, experiment see what works for you. Tom Hi. Tom's advice is sound. You will also need to set up Photoshop to use the correct Working Space profile, and the options for mismatched profiles. I believe Canon has a downloadable PDF which tells you how to use Colour Management, and specifically how to turn off CM, in their Printers. The incorrect results you are getting could be due to having both PS and your Printer Driver doing CM. Hence the need to Turn it Off in the Printer. The obvious and first place to check is always your Display. Has it been Calibrated and Profiled?? You will be able to find Workflows for Colour Management on the Web, and there is one for Epson Printers on my Camera Club Website, which you should be able to adapt to suit your Canon. www.ayrphoto.org.uk then go to Notices & Info then How to Print for Accurate Colour. Roy G |
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Thanks for the advice, folks. I will try these suggestions out!
"Roy G" wrote in message ... "tomm42" wrote in message ... On Apr 17, 3:18 am, "Sabian Smith" wrote: I have a Canon Pixma MX850 inkjet and I notice that digital photos have a sepia or brownish/pink overtone to them using the default settings. I notice Adobe Photoshop gives you the option of using the printer's own color management or photoshop color management. Which is the preferable one to start with? In each category there are several options, ex: Printer Color Management: Driver, ICM (Standard or Adobe RGB 1998) Photoshop: Many including sRGB IEC61966, RGB 1998, and various canon profiles (Canon MX850 Series PR1, PR1, MP2 etc) How do I know which color profile to use? I have tried several but they all have poor color representation. In general Canon drivers do a poor job at color. Best to use Photoshop, use the print with preview screen, make sure it shows profiles etc. You want to use the profiles from Canon. Some paper manufacturers include profiles for letter sized printers but not many, Ilford seems to cover a lot of Canon printers. Anyway set you profile, set the rendering intent to perceptual or relative colormetric. Go into the printer driver and make sure the correct paper is selected, then find the color settings and make sure color management is off. This is often where problems occur and the printer gets two conflicting orders and makes a lousy print. sRGB may give a flatter looking print than aRGB from an inkjet, experiment see what works for you. Tom Hi. Tom's advice is sound. You will also need to set up Photoshop to use the correct Working Space profile, and the options for mismatched profiles. I believe Canon has a downloadable PDF which tells you how to use Colour Management, and specifically how to turn off CM, in their Printers. The incorrect results you are getting could be due to having both PS and your Printer Driver doing CM. Hence the need to Turn it Off in the Printer. The obvious and first place to check is always your Display. Has it been Calibrated and Profiled?? You will be able to find Workflows for Colour Management on the Web, and there is one for Epson Printers on my Camera Club Website, which you should be able to adapt to suit your Canon. www.ayrphoto.org.uk then go to Notices & Info then How to Print for Accurate Colour. Roy G |
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