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PIXMA iP8720 Canon ICC Profiles for Canon Paper/Canon Printer/Canon Ink combos.

LFBrown — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 14:21:37 GMT

Where can I find a printer profile to use with CanonPhoto Paper Pro Premium Matte paper and a Canon iP8720 Photo printer. It's not in printer driver and I can't find it on the Canon website. Thank you.

Re: Canon ICC Profiles for Canon Paper/Canon Printer/Canon Ink combos.

jrhoffman75 — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:29:31 GMT

@LFBrown wrote:

Where can I find a printer profile to use with CanonPhoto Paper Pro Premium Matte paper and a Canon iP8720 Photo printer. It's not in printer driver and I can't find it on the Canon website. Thank you.

That paper is not listed as compatible with the printer so you won't find a Canon ICC profile.

The issue with fine art papers like Premium Matte is the greater thickness of the paper and the possibility of head strikes.

You could try the Matte Photo Paper profile and see if the paper feeds okay. I have used that profile with my Pro-100 when I want to avoid the imposed margin that the printer adds for fine art papers. Colors are fine since surfaces are very close in appearance.

Re: Canon ICC Profiles for Canon Paper/Canon Printer/Canon Ink combos.

LFBrown — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 17:46:12 GMT

jrhoffman75, thanks for the response. I should have mentioned I'm using a Mac which apparently does not play well with Canon printers to begin with. I've had a number of problems there. I bought the machine thinking it would be an inexpensive way to go through several boxes of PremiumArt Smooth 270gsm paper I had around from my B&W printing days. I only found out later that the paper is outside of the range the printer likes. However, I've been using it somewhat successfully. The best image performance comes from using the Plain Paper setting but I get drag marks from the printer heads. When I shift to Photo Matte Paper, however, I get terrible color which I can't sufficiently correct. I have, however, never had a feed problem. No jams. For the previously mentioned reason I wanted to try the Canon product which is rated at 200gsm and which the machine says it can handle. But that's not working either as I can't get any canon ICC files to show up in the Photoshop list in the print window. I think it's back to Epson. Thanks again.