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bgorrell

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Profiling Canon Pro9500 Mark II
« on: August 07, 2009, 05:38:09 pm »

Printing from Photoshop CS4 on MacPro running OS 10.5.8. No success in making custom profiles for a Canon Pro9500 Mk II using MonacoProfiler Platinum & i1Pro UV Cut.

The main problem is turning off color management in Canon's printer driver to print our MonacoProfiler RGB targets. Under Color Handling in Photoshop CS4's print window, "No color Management" is selected. When the Canon Printer Settings window appears, the choices under "Color Matching" are grayed out and the "Color Mode" menu under "Color Options" is also grayed out.

Canon's Tech Support says both of these printer window behaviors are normal and are controlled by selecting "No Color Management" in Photoshop CS4. The problem is the printed targets appear very UNSATURATED when they are printed, even the black patches are merely dark gray.

We've made many custom profiles over the last several years for a variety of Epson Photo & Pro Stylus printers as well as Canon imagePROGRAF series printers with great success. In each case our MonacoProfiler targets printed with significantly more saturation. Is it safe to assume that in this case the printers color management is infact not turned off?

All comments and/or suggestions welcome.

Barry Gorrell
VCP Lab
Cecil College
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Profiling Canon Pro9500 Mark II
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2009, 05:47:23 pm »

Quote from: bgorrell
The main problem is turning off color management in Canon's printer driver to print our MonacoProfiler RGB targets. Under Color Handling in Photoshop CS4's print window, "No color Management" is selected. When the Canon Printer Settings window appears, the choices under "Color Matching" are grayed out and the "Color Mode" menu under "Color Options" is also grayed out.

Yes, Adobe does control this unlike other applications but it does work (or should work) fine. That area of ColorSync is set correctly BY Photoshop.

Could be another area of the driver (of which I'm not familiar) causing the desaturation?
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