topic Re: Screen color Does not match printer colors in Professional Photo Printers

Screen color Does not match printer colors

barrisster — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 18:13:51 GMT

I use a Pixma Pro-100 with Lightroom 6. When I print the colors do not match what I see on the screen. For example faces re much redded printed than when I see them on the screen. Blues are darker.

I have calibrated my screen (Apple) using Color Munki and I put the paper profiles into the printer information. This occurs with different papers. I recently downloaded the lates Canon Driver for the printer, without any change in the outcome

Re: Screen color Does not match printer colors

jrhoffman75 — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 02:35:28 GMT

See this article; print the test image and see how it looks.

http://www.outbackphoto.com/printinginsights/pi049/essay.html

What software are you using to print?

Re: Screen color Does not match printer colors

barrisster — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 16:11:16 GMT

I printed the test picture. It appears to mimic the test photo. So, I must assume the printer is OK. Nevertheless, my faces in Lightroom are redder than the screen.

I downloaded the latest driver and firm ware for the printer. I also recalibrated using the Colormunkie to no avail I use lightroom to print. Any ideas? Obviously, I am dong something wrong in lightroom, but can't figure out what. Thanks for any help.

Bruce

Re: Screen color Does not match printer colors

jrhoffman75 — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 16:27:56 GMT

When you say redder in lightroom do you mean when you print from lightroom, or redder on the screen then when you see them printed on paper?

How do the faces on tne four children look on paper and on screen?

Did yopu try printing from LR using the Canon Print Studio Pro software?

Re: Screen color Does not match printer colors

barrisster — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 23:28:07 GMT

The printed phot matches the screen. I printed using Mac's Preview program. That is why I think I am doing something wrong in Lightroom. The Canon Print Studio plug in is on for the Pro-1 and Pro-10 printers. Is there a compatible one for the Pro-100.

Bruce

Re: Screen color Does not match printer colors

jrhoffman75 — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 02:11:54 GMT

Yes there is. I don't know that it's different for Pro-100. Go to printer support site and download. Same site where you get printer driver.

Also, check your printer in Printers and Scanners section of Mac Preferences. You don't want the Bonjour version. Click the plus symbol to add a printer and wait for the IJ version to show up. Could take a few minutes.

Re: Screen color Does not match printer colors

jrhoffman75 — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 03:07:50 GMT

I've worked with a number of folks on the forum with Pro-100 printing issues. On a Mac the main issues have been:

1. Using Apple driver and not the driver from the Canon website.

2. Using Bonjour version of printer instead of IJ version.

Re: Screen color Does not match printer colors

barrisster — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 17:51:39 GMT

Thanks, sorry for the delay in responding. Some other issues arose. Thank you for your help.

Re: Screen color Does not match printer colors

jrhoffman75 — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 17:57:49 GMT

Were yoiu able to get things working properly?

Re: Screen color Does not match printer colors

barrisster — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 03:58:47 GMT

I was unable to locate the style of the printer driver, bon jour, etc. I did down load the Canon Driver for light room but without any really change. The faces i print are still too red.

Thanks for your help

Re: Screen color Does not match printer colors

kvbarkley — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 20:25:24 GMT

I know this is an issue in photoshop, not sure about lightroom...

When you print from lightroom do you have it set to have the printer manage the colors or have lightroom manage the colors?

Re: Screen color Does not match printer colors

jrhoffman75 — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 20:49:20 GMT

The OP says the test image prints fine compared to screen. It has four faces with varying skin tones:

But his skin tones, from his images, appear redder compared to screen. I don't have an explanation for that.

Re: Screen color Does not match printer colors

barrisster — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 20:56:59 GMT

Regardless of which controls the printer, the outcome is the same. I didn't have this problem when I prnted from Aperature, only from lightroom. The other colors appear to mimic the screen. Only faces are off. I have tried different drivers and paper profiles. I have also used different papers without success. The only thing I have not tried is taking a lightroom photo to another printer. I will do that this evening. I have a HP 8600, not a photo printer, but it is worth a try.

Re: Screen color Does not match printer colors

jrhoffman75 — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 21:22:12 GMT

Have you tried printing with Print Studio Pro?

Re: Screen color Does not match printer colors

Waddizzle — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 14:07:07 GMT

@barrisster wrote:
Regardless of which controls the printer, the outcome is the same. I didn't have this problem when I prnted from Aperature, only from lightroom. The other colors appear to mimic the screen. Only faces are off. I have tried different drivers and paper profiles. I have also used different papers without success. The only thing I have not tried is taking a lightroom photo to another printer. I will do that this evening. I have a HP 8600, not a photo printer, but it is worth a try.

Are you using sRGB or Adobe RGB? My Lightroom 6 defaults to using Adobe RGB with my RAW files. I use an Import preset to change each imported RAW file to sRGB.

Re: Screen color Does not match printer colors

barrisster — Sat, 03 Dec 2016 18:02:27 GMT

Yes, i downloaded it as you suggested and used it with only a very slight improvment.

Re: Screen color Does not match printer colors

jrhoffman75 — Sat, 03 Dec 2016 18:34:36 GMT

I don't know what else to suggest. Since the test image prints match well with screen its not a printer issue (as you said above).

Is it all faces or just certain images?

You could check the softproofing option in Develop module and see what happens when you select diffferent paper profiles.