You'll have to post your driver settings and your Photoshop color settings for anyone to be able to help.
The OS is Windows XP, 2gig mem, tons of disk
Monitor is calibrated with i1 or monaco
Windows ICC colour loader is used (essentially for the screen).
The original images I work with are either sRGB or Adobe RGB. The "overcontrast" effect is very similar for either mode.
The working space is either sRGB or Adobe RGB. Similar results in either mode.
Seven print color management options tried are:
(1)
color handling: printer manages colors
rendering intent: perceptual
canon printer preferences color/intensity: Manual
canon manual color adjustments: color correction: ICM
canon print quality: custom (fine, diffusion)
(2)
color handling: printer manages colors
rendering intent: perceptual
canon printer preferences color/intensity: Auto
canon print quality: custom (fine, diffusion)
(3)
color handling: printer manages colors
rendering intent: perceptual
canon printer preferences color/intensity: ICM
input profile: Standard or Adobe (as per input image)
canon print quality: custom (fine, diffusion)
(4)
color handling: printer manages colors
rendering intent: perceptual
canon printer preferences color/intensity: Manual
canon manual color adjustments: driver matching
color mode: standard
canon print quality: custom (fine, diffusion)
(5)
color handling: printer manages colors
rendering intent: perceptual
canon printer preferences color/intensity: Manual
canon manual color adjustments: color correction: ICM
canon print quality: custom (fine, diffusion)
(6)
color handling: printer manages colors
rendering intent: perceptual
canon printer preferences color/intensity: auto
canon manual color adjustments: color correction: ICM
canon print quality: custom (fine, diffusion)
(7)
color handling: Photoshop manages colors
printer profile: generated by Greta Macbeth i1 or Canon ICC profiles
rendering intent: perceptual
canon printer preferences color/intensity: manual
canon manual color adjustments: none
canon print quality: custom (fine, diffusion)
In other words, all "reasonable" combinations were tried.
All combinations yield essentially the same results - oversaturated contrasty images that do not remotely match the screen display.Similar setups for printing with ICC profiles to the Epson 4800 (or the Canon s9000 now donated to a worthy young photographer) yielded excellent images - screen and print match very well.
I also installed the Canon software / driver onto a laptop running WinXP home. Similar results are noted.
Grayscale printing is poorly supported by their "you need a 45mm border at the top and bottom of the print" warning message - seems like a mechanical transport issue that Canon does not want to address when running in the super-fine clean dots of the grayscale mode. In fact, the grayscale option is one reason to select this printer because of the very good rendtion of bw image. This is documented in the Pro9000 On-Screen manual.
Any ideas?