I cannot ever get my colors even close -PRO-200

[abrnchoodart]

Hello,

I have had a Pro-200 for a number of years.  I simply cannot get accurate color in my prints.  Ever.  Now they are wildly inaccurate.  I have done all of the recommended cleaning and everything appears normal in those prints, but as soon as I go to make fine art prints using Canon paper, no go.  

Note, I am using Photoshop and create print images there.  I have made them in RGB and CMYK.  They are all terrible.  I have the most recent driver and the most recent OS on my Mac Desktop.  I never can find my printer listed in Photoshop.  I have also used the selection of Use Photoshop to Manage Color AND Use Printer to Manage Color.  No difference.

I reinstalled the printer driver today.  When I pull up my printers and scanners window, it says that I have Canon PRO-200 series 2 installed, model Canon Pro 200 series AirPrint, Driver version 40.

If anyone could offer advice, I would be so thankful.  This has been a very expensive printing experience with minimal success.

[Stephen]

Hello!

Try using this: https://canon.us/PRO200Setup 

It's the software that you'd usually run when you first set up the printer.

It should automatically uninstall/re-install whatever it needs to make the printer work as it should. If it doesn't, let us know.

[abrnchoodart]

 I just installed this software (I installed it yesterday as well).  This screenshot shows the printer that appears.  I believe this has the Air Print Function.  Not sure if I should add it again or not.

[jrhoffman75]

It is the AirPrint version. For some reason the Canon driver isn’t showing up. Is your printer connected via USB? Did you try Stephen's site?

[abrnchoodart]

It's a wireless connection.  And yes, I did try Stephen's site.  I installed the software.  The screenshot is what appears.  

[jrhoffman75]

This is what I have. You should call Canon support at 1-800-OK-CANON. Register your product if you haven't done that already.

[jrhoffman75]

 This is the driver you downloaded? And you double clicked it to install it? Then you went to add the printer?

[abrnchoodart]

I did download that, along with others ( I tried multiple drivers bc I wasn’t sure which one to use). That one did not seem to show up after installing it, but I can try again. 

I have had some luck with my laptop and making a sort of okay print today, so something worked. I have no idea what. But when I print from my desktop the prints still don’t look right. But maybe I need to just keep installing, deleting, and installing. 

[abrnchoodart]

I just reinstalled this driver this morning.  Strangely it comes up as an AirPrint driver.  Can't seem to get rid of it.

 

[jrhoffman75]

That is showing the installed printer. 
Select Add printer and wait. Could be several minutes. IJ Series should appear. If not after five minutes give Canon support a call. 

[Chumchingee]

Check your ICC Profiles. Chances are that is where the problem is. I have noticed that other companies have registered profiles such as Red River Papers. Such as HP Photopapers Glossy and one for Matte.

I also notice the Canon Papers do not register with ICC Profiles from other papers. There is a simple test using an old photographer's tool called the MacBeth Chart which is a number of different colors including various skin tones.

Personally I am learning to use an alternate program that fixes jpgs automatically for dpi, camera mistakes in focus and in adjusting the image for poor resolution, all of which various jpgs have a lot in common with.

I have been playing with Canon Pro-200 because they put it on sale this year in the fall. Personally I like the Hi-gloss Hi Res papers that Canon puts out. I have used various printers with the free Macbeth color chart and most of it is coming out fairly accurate. But I have used a lot of various cameras over the years. I started using a Nikon F I bought in South Korea. Then I followed up with a Polaroid 180 which had very fast black and white and 75 ASA color. That did give me an accurate idea of what I was dealing with under most lighting conditions. A parallel 64 Kodak slide film was fairly close to the 75 color polaroid.

Canon has some features on the Pro-200 with their saturation prints that no on else has.

I suggest you set it up as a wired usb printer. That might make a difference. Or not.

I also discovered my brother HL-L8360 Color Laser puts out some decent files for indexing. But basically I use the photo setting on that machine with plain ordinary hi-brightness paper. This ancient machine is not as greedy as the more modern printers as far as getting some cheap prints with good color.