how to disable color management of the pixma pro 100 under mac ios Sierra

[ninhnguyen2017]

Hi,

I need help on how to disable color management of the pixma pro 100 for mac ios Sierra. I've been reading from this forum but have not found the answer yet.

If you know how, please walk me throug.

Thanks in advance,

Ninh

[BarneyH]

I am really struggling with switching off color management using macOS, using Indesign CC and Pixma Pro 10S

Yes, I agree that Photoshop and Lightroom switch off color management when passing through to the driver. Neither colorsync nor Canon Color Matching come up as options (it's all greyed out)  - and color management works.

But, when using Indesign, or indeed color profiling software, when one goes to the color management dialogue in the canon driver, all the options remain available.

(NB in Indesign in the print dialogue is "Let Indesign determine colors" is being chosen - in fact the option "let printer determine colors" doesn't appear)

So I need to find a way to FORCE the macOS canon driver to switch off color management when printing from Indesign - but I can't! Hence the print is getting double color managed...

The same RGB photo when printed in Photoshop is color managed and prints accurately. But when that photo is imported into Indesign and printed, the colors from Indesign are totally off. Both applications show the photo on the screen in the right way.

Help!!!

[jrhoffman75]

I don’t use that software, so not sure if this will help

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/color.html

[BarneyH]

Thank you! Yes.

And indeed one of the steps it says is : “switch off color management in the printer driver”

Hence my question.

Does anybody know how to do this on a mac?

[jrhoffman75]

Since when LR switches of color management it selects ColorSync and prevents user choice I would guess you would select ColorSync and then choose paper ICC profile in OneDesign.

[BarneyH]

Yes, I hoped that would be the case.

Unfortunately not - Colorsync seems to apply additional color management. Have tried with automatic profile and paper profile.

So the challenge remains how to switch off color management entirely, as I believe one can do in the windows based version of the driver, given the host printing software isn't doing it. Strange, given that Adobe manages to achieve this with Photoshop and Lightroom, but doesn't with Indesign...

[jrhoffman75]

Maybe this.

https://www.xrite.com/service-support/unabletoshutoffcolormanagementincanondrivermacosx

[BarneyH]

Thank you so much for trying to help me !

Unfortunately, using the Generic RGB profile creates a very similar output as before rom Indesign... 😞

[jrhoffman75]

Do you have the IJ Series printer driver installed and not AirPrint or Bonjour. 

[jrhoffman75]

I do not use Indesign, but I found this.