Printing issue with Canon Pixma Pro-100

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unkyjohn

Senior Member
Hope some one can help me with this. I'm new to printing at home so bear with me please!

This is the image that I get when printing from Elements 11. I think it's a wrong setting in the colour (color) management setting but I am unsure of what the settings should be. I may even be looking in the wrong area!

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This is what it should look like

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Thanks
 
Browncoat

Browncoat

Senior Member
It's a Canon. 'Nuff said. But just in case it's operator error...

1) Make sure you've converted your image to CMYK color space for printing (instead of RGB).
2) Make sure it's an 8-bit image and not 16-bit.

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unkyjohn

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Browncoat said:
It's a Canon. 'Nuff said. But just in case it's operator error...

1) Make sure you've converted your image to CMYK color space for printing (instead of RGB).
2) Make sure it's an 8-bit image and not 16-bit.

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1) When sending to the printer I've tried both generic CYMK and Nikon CYMK and it prints like this

donkey.jpg

which has improved slightly :eek:)

2) No idea where to change between 8 or 16 bit :eek:(
 
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RON_RIP

Senior Member
I have a Pixma Pro 9500 Mark II and have never had such a problem. You need to upload these images to Canon and get their take on the problem. Hopefully it is something simple. Is this a new printer? Maybe it is defective. I would be inclined to yell at Canon until they helped you fix the issue.
 
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jwstl

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First, don't convert your image to CMYK for printing to a desktop printer. CMYK is for printing presses. You typically see issues like this when you have color management settings applied in both the image software-Photoshop- and in the printer's software.

Let me add to this...the majority of desktop printers are RGB printers even if they use CMYK inks. There are CMYK printers available for those that need printing proofs but Epson and Canon desktop printers are RGB. So why don't you convert to CMYK? Because the printer driver expects RGB values and makes the conversion for your printer/ink combo. So why not covert in Photoshop instead of the driver? Because your printer needs RGB and the driver will convert it back to RGB and then to CMYK when it prints. And all that results in loss of quality.


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unkyjohn

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jwstl said:
First, don't convert your image to CMYK for printing to a desktop printer. CMYK is for printing presses. You typically see issues like this when you have color management settings applied in both the image software-Photoshop- and in the printer's software.

Let me add to this...the majority of desktop printers are RGB printers even if they use CMYK inks. There are CMYK printers available for those that need printing proofs but Epson and Canon desktop printers are RGB. So why don't you convert to CMYK? Because the printer driver expects RGB values and makes the conversion for your printer/ink combo. So why not covert in Photoshop instead of the driver? Because your printer needs RGB and the driver will convert it back to RGB and then to CMYK when it prints. And all that results in loss of quality.


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jwsti it seems that this has done the trick. Thanks for everyone's help and input.
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