Let's go back to basics. The purpose of printing profiling targets is to capture a characterization of how the printer reproduces the target file colours left to its own devices without colour management active. You should not be printing with a paper profile active. But you do need to specify the printer Media Type that will be the same Media Type you will use for the paper for which you are creating the profile. So you need to specify the Media Type and the print quality you will be using. That's it. For the Canon Pro-2000 printer use Print Studio Pro for a reliable print of your profiling target. This is all you need. Of course every different Media Type will produce a different target appearance. Of course print the target on the same paper you are profiling for and you will be using to print with. No need to complicate life with anything else.
Dear Mark,
Much to my awe the Canon PSP is rubbish! Absolutely smth wrong with it. Basically no matter what it will not print the targets correctly, meaning even if "Color Mode: No Color Correction" is engaged the output print is still color managed.
Indeed PRO-2000 is my first serious printer and I absolutely love it BUT I did not have any prior experience on printer profiling thus I have miserably failed to recognize that Canon PSP is not working right until today. Ever since I have started printing targets, last November, I had a strange feeling that the colors on the printed targets looked somehow washed-out, muted color when compared against the target TIFF. I thought it was supposed to be so but I was wrong.
I thought it was my old Dell monitor that was playing tricks on me and I've upgraded to one professional NEC Spectra View.
And yet... the printed targets looked miserable and you could see (from the other thread) that the profiling produces miserable results. But today it occurred to me I should be trying to print the target the old fashioned way:
from PS tell that printer is managing colors --> Set in printer settings "Color Mode: Color and Color Settings: Matching Off" --> And bloody click "Print" with no strings attached, no assigned profile or anything.
And for the first time ever the colors printed really looked like not-managed, raw, forceful, vivid and punchy! And guess what: first profile, rushed in, done in i1Profiler yielded one beautiful profile, in the gamut size range of the original Canon similar profile for a "satin like" paper.
So while I am really disappointed about the lost time and resources so far I am happy I realized the issue is beyond me... how can it be fixed? Hard to tell.
In short:NULL PRINTING is not working for Canon PRO-x000 series and so is ACPU
Canon PSP plugin + PS does not turn color management OFF... yes, I stand by my statement and I am willing to future explore / evaluate the facts.
Printing from i1Profiler with printer settings "Color Mode: Color and Color Settings: Matching Off" prints targets correctly ... sorry Doug for not having listened to you earlier and trying it!I have attached the two shots of how 100% of my printed targets in PS+ Canon PSP look like vs real NO_COLOR_MANAGEMENT. I am pretty sure it's easy to guess which one is which.