Canon MG5250 and Photoshop CS6

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Hi chaps, big question really, sorry, but when I want to print at home I'm getting confused, I have 'Lightroom 4' Pshop CS 6 and, of course Canons own 'Easy-PhotoPrint EX' so I can use any of these but I'm using a lot of expensive paper and ink trying to choose which s/ware to use and which settings so I thought I'd ask here if anyone had any advice please ?

eg when I go to print in Pshop the top box has a 'Print settings' dialogue which has a load of settings including 'media' where I can pick 'Photo Paper Pro Platinum' or several others, but is this box overwritten by the one below 'Colour Management' where I can pick a printer/paper profile or do I have to go through and set them both up carefully ... it takes ages.

Then it says 'disable printers colour management' then there are 4 rendering intent options and a tick box for 'Match Print colours ... what are all of these.

I have searched and searched but really cannot find a simple way of achieving the BEST settings for a print ... I understand that I need to tell it what paper but really ....

Any help or pointers to some resources really welcome.

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Roger
 
Roger

If you are going to use a colour managed work flow then it should be fairly simple to set up.

After selecting Photoshop manages color you need to select a printer profile for the printer/paper/ink combination you are using. If you don't have one for your set up go to the paper manufacturers site and see if one exist there. Not all paper manufacturers supply these or ones for every printer. If you have one then fine select it.

Rendering intents,tells the software how to handle the colours in the image, especially those that are out of the printers colour gamut. Select either Perceptual or Relative Colormetric in this case.

You don't have a soft proof option in the print module like Photoshop. This is done with the soft proof option within the develop module.


Match print colors means show a soft proof of the final printed image in the preview box. This will show the print will/should look after it's been printed

Finally make sure the printers colour correction is turned OFF. This should be some where in the colour settings within the printers dialogue box. Can't help here as I have Epson printers.

The settings for Lightroom are very similar . In print settings look to the left pane, and go to Print Job. Select the paper profile as with Photoshop, and again choose either perceptual or Rel Colormetric for the rendering intent.

Also as with the Photoshop option make sure you have the printers own colour management turned off.

John C

However this effort is a wast of time if the monitor itself is not calibrated and profiled correctly, as all these settings make the assumption that it is
 
Thank you so much John, you won't believe how helpful this is ... I've been scouring the net for help and found none as concise as this ... good of you to take the time, have a good weekend.

Roger
 
Just in addition - I am considering getting a monitor calibration system but thought that it was a waste if I didn't understand how the basic 'buttons' work ... I can now look around for something suitable ....
 
Thanks for the link John, I'll check it out ...
 
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