I want to compare before and after. And basically to see what differences there are between the 4 target printing approaches prior to calibrating. That is, using the default do they vary?
I expect that there will be differences after calibration (otherwise what's the point?).
What I'm curious about is how those differences are reflected. Do they only impact PSP? If so one can presume the calibration process only effects PSP. OTOH if it's not limited to PSP, then does it have the same effect on the other three target print techniques as on the PSP. Or does it differ.
Also, how much change occurred as a result of calibration?
I want to understand what's going on behind the scenes with the Canon Pro1000. I rather like their approach for easily achieving compatibility across a lot of printers using the same profiles but their technical info on what's going on and where leaves a lot to be desired. So I'm treating it as something of a black box that needs to be analyzed.
Doug, you can perform color calibration at any time and enable it or disable it from the printer driver:
Printing Preferences --> Main --> Media Type --> Advanced Settings --> Calibration Value : Printer Default/Use Value/Disregard Value.
or from the operation panel:
Maintenance --> Color Calibration --> Enable/Disable adjustments values
Also some observations about PRO-1000 and PRO-4000 (and I assume PRO-2000, PRO-6000) and media types.
Both printers use the same printhead PF-10 and the same inkset.
PRO-4000 offers an expanded set of media types which almost all can be used as base to create custom media types. PRO-1000 is limited in this regard.
Both Hahnemuhle and Canson use, for its of their papers, different media types for the 1000 and the 4000.
For example Hahnemuhle for all its MK papers on the 1000 suggest "Highest Density Fine Art Paper" a MBK black only media type,
but for the 4000 and MK papers suggest (and build their profiles on) "Heavy Weight Fine Art Paper" which uses both blacks MBK and PBK.
Canson does similar. For the 4000 and MK paper Rag Photographique 310 uses, as the base of it's custom media type, "Fine Art Textured" which is also a dual black (MBK/PBK) media type but for the 1000 "Highest Density Fine Art Paper" a MBK black only media type.
From these observations (and Mark's conclusions in his review) there are differences between the desktop and the roll models despite the same head and inks and it would be interesting to investigate if color calibration can be used to "align" a desktop to a roll PRO model or it's useful only for PRO printers in the same category.