topic Re: Pixma Pro-100 color prints are too warm in Professional Photo Printers

Pixma Pro-100 color prints are too warm

curlyjoe — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 05:50:39 GMT

Hi, my color prints on this machine are too warm. They seem to have a real red cast to them. I don't think I'm double profiling as I'm using Qimage or Print Studio Pro to print and letting the application handle the colors and turning color matching to 'none' in the windows print dialog box. I've tried the reverse as well turning off color management in the app and in the windows print dialog choosing the appropriate icc and there is no difference. The colors are still too warm.

Any suggestions to correct this? Thanks.

Re: Pixma Pro-100 color prints are too warm

ebiggs1 — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:41:04 GMT

All Canon photo printers I have ever used have a "warm" bias. It seems Canon engineers like this bias a lot.

It does make skin tones nice. But as you say sometimes you don't want that. It is difficult to eliminate this bias as it is built in to the printer.

I use Photoshop and nothing else. No add-ons or plug-ins.

I make sure my monitor is calibrated right for it's contrast, brightness and grayscale.

This is very important. If any of these are different than you printer is printing, you will not be happy.

I don't know your software but in PS you can add a cooling filter. Just a slight amount is enough. Do not over do it.

Re: Pixma Pro-100 color prints are too warm

jrhoffman75 — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 15:35:41 GMT

You can use Print Studio Pro to fine tune printer output.

Re: Pixma Pro-100 color prints are too warm

ebiggs1 — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 15:43:36 GMT

I know. I tried it. I will stick with Photoshop and/or Lightroom 5. To each his own.

Canon may make the best cameras and lenses but they don't know Photoshop!

Re: Pixma Pro-100 color prints are too warm

jrhoffman75 — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 16:11:29 GMT

My response was to curlyjoe's post. He does use PSP.

Re: Pixma Pro-100 color prints are too warm

curlyjoe — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 16:37:47 GMT

@jrhoffman75
Thanks, I will try the pattern print as a last resort but my old printer's output very closely matches what I see on my monitor. So it's frustrating to have a new printer that is supposed rival my old one and not get what I see on screen.