Advice re printer settings or calibration.

[barry boswell]

Until recently I have been using a Canon MP830 multifunction machine for printing photos and it has always given me pretty good results.

I recently purchased a Canon Pixma Pro9000 A3 printer and by comparison the prints I am getting are darker, duller and lacking in vibrance - in no way as satisfactory as the results from the MP830 - and I don't know why this should be.

I have the monitor brightness turned down to just 30 percent; this previously made the prints more or less match the monitor. I have not used any monitor calibration software.

The colour management is through the printer drivers; if I switch this to Photoshop colour management the results are worse.

Any ideas please??

Barry Boswell

 

[Craikeybaby]

The first step will be to calibrate your monitor so you at least have a benchmark.

 

[scraggs]

This appears to be a common Canon issue even with a calibrated monitor.
Try this, in the print driver go to colour/intensity and click manual, then in the manual settings change colour mode to linear tone and intensity to somewhere around -5 to -8 that should give a pretty good match to a calibrated monitor.

 

[barry boswell]

This appears to be a common Canon issue even with a calibrated monitor.
Try this, in the print driver go to colour/intensity and click manual, then in the manual settings change colour mode to linear tone and intensity to somewhere around -5 to -8 that should give a pretty good match to a calibrated monitor.

Hi Scraggs. Thanks for the tip. I tried this and it does improve the image. But, annoyingly I still cannot get as good a result out of the Pro9000 printer as I can get from the MP830. This is irritating because I have a few images that I want to print larger than A4.

 

[scraggs]

If you are using photoshop, there is a driver for use in photoshop for the 9000, and it prints out 2 a4 sheets of a shot you tell it to, each sheet contains vairiations of colour, intensity and other settings, you then match the right one to your screen, and then set your driver to that.
It' an excellent little app.
But getting your monitor calibrated would be a help.

 

[jakeblu]

Always best to have your monitor calibrated with a device, their not that expensive now and if you intend doing a lot of printing then they are well worth the money.

I dont have a canon printer but two epsons and workflow for printing is to let ps manage the colours, use the correct profile for the paper I am using and turn off all colour enhancements. I get decent prints from my epsons with this workflow but I do calibrate my monitor regularily.

Steve

 

[Denisw]

Always best to have your monitor calibrated with a device, their not that expensive now and if you intend doing a lot of printing then they are well worth the money.

I dont have a canon printer but two epsons and workflow for printing is to let ps manage the colours, use the correct profile for the paper I am using and turn off all colour enhancements. I get decent prints from my epsons with this workflow but I do calibrate my monitor regularily.

Steve

I too have an Epson and I calibrate my monitor regularly. I agree with you, I get the best results letting PS manage my colours using Epson's Premium Glossy Profile for the 2400 and turning colour management off. this gives me good results. Still getting things absolutely right sometimes requires a bit of adjustment depending on the subjects reflective properties.