topic Cheapo paper and no ICC color profiles in Professional Photo Printers

Cheapo paper and no ICC color profiles

Sensel — Tue, 30 May 2017 03:07:00 GMT

I have some Polaroid Premium Photo Paper and some NCR Photo-A-Peel photo paper.

There is no ICC color profile for the Canon Pixma Pro-100 for these papers. Gee, I wonder why…

But, I was wondering, does anyone have the profiles for them for the Pixma Pro-100?

Long shot but, well…

If not, how do you approach printing on no ICC color profile papers like this?

No, I am not buying a printer color managment profile device. Just, would like to use up the paper.

Re: Cheapo paper and no ICC color profiles

jrhoffman75 — Tue, 30 May 2017 12:27:59 GMT

Select a Canon media type that has similar surface and run a test print

You can go into the printer driver and print a test pattern that varies the inks and pick a combination that looks best to you.

Then you dial in those settings.

Use this test print

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

Re: Cheapo paper and no ICC color profiles

Sensel — Wed, 31 May 2017 20:03:47 GMT

The Canon help person said to just pick the basic ICC for that type of paper. There is a basic glossy ICC: "2 Other Glossy Paper". It worked fine.

Re: Cheapo paper and no ICC color profiles

Sensel — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 03:39:31 GMT

Use the Canon printer to handle the color (no ICC choice) and just choose the similar type of paper surface for media (Glossy, Matte, etc.).This seems to work the best.