Color adjustment pattern doesn't print TR8620a

[beebelo]

I want to adjust my printed photo colors to match my monitor. I found this information in the Canon knowledge base pages: https://support.usa.canon.com/kb/s/article/ART162140  (Adjust Printer Color Balance from a Windows PC). 

My problem is that I can't get this color pattern sheet to print. It ignores the settings that I made when following the instructions, and just goes ahead and prints the the photo instead. (I am printing from the Canon Easy-PhotoPrint Editor that comes with the Canon software - if that makes any difference.)

Any ideas on what I might be missing? 

[jrhoffman75 · Accepted solution]

Try:

1. right-click on the image file in it's folder

2.select Print when the dialogue box appears

3. select Printer Options

4. select Main->Color Intensity->Manual

5. select Print Pattern then OK

6. Back to main dialogue and select Print.

I don't know if you can do the same through Easy Print; I don't use that. If not, maybe see if you can export a JPEG from Easy Print and then follow above steps.

 

[beebelo]

That works - thank you! You are correct in that there appears to be no way to do that with Easy-PhotoPrint.

I have two reasons for printing with Easy-PhotoPrint:  

1. I'm printing two different photos on the same 8.5x11" photo paper, specifying 4x6 for each photo, then cutting manually. It's the easiest way I've found to do that, and the pics are exactly 4x6.
2. The other reason is that previously, when I've printed single photos from Gimp, my 4x6 photos were too big and I needed to trim them slightly to fit in a 4x6 frame. Easy-PhotoPrint pics come out exact.

If you happen to have any thoughts on those two points, I sure would appreciate it.

[jrhoffman75]

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@beebelo wrote:

That works - thank you! You are correct in that there appears to be no way to do that with Easy-PhotoPrint.

I have two reasons for printing with Easy-PhotoPrint:  

1. I'm printing two different photos on the same 8.5x11" photo paper, specifying 4x6 for each photo, then cutting manually. It's the easiest way I've found to do that, and the pics are exactly 4x6.
2. The other reason is that previously, when I've printed single photos from Gimp, my 4x6 photos were too big and I needed to trim them slightly to fit in a 4x6 frame. Easy-PhotoPrint pics come out exact.

If you happen to have any thoughts on those two points, I sure would appreciate it.

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You could try this if Easy Print works with PDFs

1. Follow the steps above to get pattern print

2. Select the desired print adjustments based on the pattern print

3. Print the image to PDF

4. Use Easy Print to print the PDFs. 

[beebelo]

That is a very helpful idea. Thank you!