topic Re: New Printer Features Menu On OSX Mojave in Professional Photo Printers

New Printer Features Menu On OSX Mojave

zoomCat — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 15:41:41 GMT

I have a Pro 10, and recently upgraded an iMac to Mojave from a much older system. I have updated the Canon driver from their website, and successfully printed some photos using the default settings that look OK. I have access to my custom Red River paper profiles, but I haven't experimented with them yet.

My issue is with printing to Fine Art papers. The new print dialog (blech!) doesn't handle things the same way; prior to Mojave selecting a fine art paper and margins was necessary to get true matte printing. Now it isn't clear to me how to accomplish the same thing, and the results are pretty bad, as I would expect to see with photo black being used on matte paper. I'm doing this from Photos, the old dialog and process seems to be availble from Affinity Photo.

What are the magic settings to get true matte printing from the new UI in Apple Photos? Is it possible at all?

Re: New Printer Features Menu On OSX Mojave

MikeB_FI — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 17:13:04 GMT

My first posting, I live in the UK.

I have similar issue. MACOS Mojave, Canon PRO-1000. Using Affinity Photo, also the first time trying ICC profiles.

Not all the ICC profiles that appear in the Affinity Document setup appear in the printer dialogue 'Printer Features' list. In this case I want to use HFA_CanPro1000_PK_BarytaFB

The profile is saved in macintosh HD/Library/Colorsync/Profiles

I am unable to find any of the profiles shown in the second screenshot (i.e. Printer Features) by using Finder

Re: New Printer Features Menu On OSX Mojave

jrhoffman75 — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 18:27:18 GMT

@zoomCat wrote:
I have a Pro 10, and recently upgraded an iMac to Mojave from a much older system. I have updated the Canon driver from their website, and successfully printed some photos using the default settings that look OK. I have access to my custom Red River paper profiles, but I haven't experimented with them yet.

My issue is with printing to Fine Art papers. The new print dialog (blech!) doesn't handle things the same way; prior to Mojave selecting a fine art paper and margins was necessary to get true matte printing. Now it isn't clear to me how to accomplish the same thing, and the results are pretty bad, as I would expect to see with photo black being used on matte paper. I'm doing this from Photos, the old dialog and process seems to be availble from Affinity Photo.

What are the magic settings to get true matte printing from the new UI in Apple Photos? Is it possible at all?

If you choose ColorSync then you should be able to select PPPPMatte ICC profile and media type in the appropriate dropdowns.

Re: New Printer Features Menu On OSX Mojave

jrhoffman75 — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 17:55:45 GMT

@MikeB_FI wrote:
Hi
My first posting, I live in the UK.
I have similar issue. MACOS Mojave, Canon PRO-1000. Using Affinity Photo, also the first time trying ICC profiles.

Not all the ICC profiles that appear in the Affinity Document setup appear in the printer dialogue 'Printer Features' list. In this case I want to use HFA_CanPro1000_PK_BarytaFB

The profile is saved in macintosh HD/Library/Colorsync/Profiles

I am unable to find any of the profiles shown in the second screenshot (i.e. Printer Features) by using Finder

Follow trail in the attached image. Then copy the ICC profiles from the folder and install them in the ColorSync/Profiles folder as you would a third party profile.

Re: New Printer Features Menu On OSX Mojave

MikeB_FI — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 18:17:22 GMT

Hi John
Thanks for your quick reply. I have had a quick look and found the folder you mentioned. I now have all the profiles in both folders, have restarted Affinity but still the same outcome.

Due to the time difference between UK and you (and some other things I need to attend to) I will need to have a longer look at this tomorrow

Re: New Printer Features Menu On OSX Mojave

bellevuefineart — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 20:13:29 GMT

All of the papers I've profiled i run as high density fine art or fine heavy fine art. All of Hahnemuhle's matte papers are run as High Density Fine Art or Heavy Fine Art. I'm not sure what they were before Mojave, since I already had Mojave when I got my Canon Pro-1000.

Re: New Printer Features Menu On OSX Mojave

jackygag — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 02:50:06 GMT

I have exactly the same issue and I don't understand why Canon don't update there documentation!

The only thing I know is if you see the old dialog in an app like Affinity, its because the app was generate with an old SDK. Photos or Apple apps are always using the last SDK.