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My old Canon iP4500 could print double-sided photo albums. When it broke I bought a Canon MG7150. The problem is, although the specifications said the printer does duplex printing, Canon did not clarify that it would only do duplex printing when set to Plain paper or Hagaki. Needless to say, I was a bit cheesed off! :mad:

I contacted Canon who were not very helpful. But they did advise me to get the paper profile from the paper manufacturer. I Googled this and from what I have gleaned it seems that profiles are mainly for print colours, not to enable duplex printing.

So, I have two questions:

1. Do paper manufacturers issue paper profiles for their paper?
2. If I used Hagaki setting and selected A4 with the highest print quality, would there be any reduction in the photo quality compared to, for example, Photo Paper Glossy or Matte?

I prefer to do my own printing and comb-binding, should anyone wonder why I do not use an online printer. ;)

I am unsure whether this is the place to discuss my problem but I hope someone might be able to help.

Thank you,

Rog
 
rogerdodger said:
1. Do paper manufacturers issue paper profiles for their paper?
2. If I used Hagaki setting and selected A4 with the highest print quality, would there be any reduction in the photo quality compared to, for example, Photo Paper Glossy or Matte?
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1) Yes,well, most do. But, I have found that some of them can be quite useless.
but
2) most of the profiles I have come across are set for the Glossy or Matt paper types
I haven't tried Hagaki, but I didn't notice a difference between Fine Art Photo RAG and Matte Paper on one of the paper types I tried (although the only reason I tried it was the profile was awful to start with)

Which paper are you using?
 
Thank you, coldpenguin,

I was using double-side glossy, A4 190g/m, but I have no more. I also used double-sided matte paper from Dixons - A4, 180g/m.

I could double-side print with both, without smudging or smearing. I set up the printer to A4, Hagaki A, Highest Picture Quality and entered printer maintenance and increased the drying time. The pictures seemed OK.

I passed this information onto Canon and they are getting back to their tech support dept. I will see what happens. ;)

Rog
 
rogerdodger said:
My old Canon iP4500 could print double-sided photo albums. When it broke I bought a Canon MG7150. The problem is, although the specifications said the printer does duplex printing, Canon did not clarify that it would only do duplex printing when set to Plain paper or Hagaki. Needless to say, I was a bit cheesed off! :mad:

I contacted Canon who were not very helpful. But they did advise me to get the paper profile from the paper manufacturer. I Googled this and from what I have gleaned it seems that profiles are mainly for print colours, not to enable duplex printing.

So, I have two questions:

1. Do paper manufacturers issue paper profiles for their paper?
2. If I used Hagaki setting and selected A4 with the highest print quality, would there be any reduction in the photo quality compared to, for example, Photo Paper Glossy or Matte?

I prefer to do my own printing and comb-binding, should anyone wonder why I do not use an online printer. ;)

I am unsure whether this is the place to discuss my problem but I hope someone might be able to help.

Thank you,

Rog
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I have a Canon printer similar to the iP4500. I'm not familiar with the MG7150.

Do the MG7150 have a manual paper feed similar to the top loading manual paper feed the iP4500 series have? Some kind of a by-pass feed, where instead of taking a paper from the paper tray, you just load one single sheet into the manual feed?

You could print one side as normal, from the paper tray, then turn the paper around, and feed it in at the back, to print the other side?

On the other hand, just print one side, wait for the print to dry totally, reload it in the paper tray, and print the other side.

Surely paper profiles are mainly to do with colour settings, to help tell the printer's ink how much drops is needed to get the same colour, ie: to tell it to use this much ink for plain paper, but that much ink for glossy paper to get the same colour, and profiles are nothing to do with the duplex system, it is the printer itself not the paper that is doing the duplex printing. It could be that different paper are sometimes too thick or heavy for the printer to cope with duplex printing, hence if I print on card, I have to make do with the manual feed myself.
 
Thanks Major Eazy.

The MG7150 feeds paper from two trays in the base. It is a hassle to keep feeding in one sheet of paper, removing the tray, turning the paper over (hoping you don't make a mistake) and replace the tray - and then print the other side. Canon suggested the same thing. I argued that their specs said duplex printing, which I took as read and that it would do the same as my old iP4500. It doesn't.

I was amazed when they suggested print profiles, but I went along with them until I was reasonably sure it wasn't going to fly!

I had a reply saying auto duplex printing was not possible, but as I have done it a few times I passed this info onto them. That is not to say something drastic might not happen. Which is why I am waiting to see whether Canon gets back to me to say it's OK, or stop doing it because I will ruin the printer.

As you rightly say, the paper settings are linked to ink usage. Hopefully setting the drying time to high will prevent smudging. It has so far. :)

Grateful for the input.

Rog
 
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