Printing problem

[Michel Boda]

Good morning to All of You,

I have a printing problem. I have a canon i995 which prints excellent pictures.
I usually used the canon software and sometimes PS. I do not remember when and how but I must have changed a setting somewhere because all my prints come out with a high cyan level whatever printing program I use. I have changed setting in the print set up of xp,
also tried the color calibration of xp and in the printing setup of canon etc all prints remain predominent in cyan. even with lighroom. Could someone guide me to get my colors right.
I have even reinstalled the print driver but without success. Please Help thanks - Michel

[calshot]

Have you tried running the cleaning process? From the maintainance properties section
Rob

[graeme_clarke]

Michel,

I use photoshop and I periodicaly have to reset the printer profile. In print preview there are two key options in the options box. Color handling should be set to "let photoshop handle the color" (not the printer), and the printer profile should be set to your printer and the paer you use. For example I set it to Epson 1290 with photo glossy paper. In the printer properties box check custom, then go to advanced and check no color management. I set the paper type to photo glossy film (even thoght the profile is set to photo glossy paper) because it gives a little less magenta. Occasionally when using Ilford Gallerie I have to take out -7 magenta.

I'm not that familiar with lightroom yet. I looked at my beta copy and can find a box that changes letting the printer handle the color to "other", but I cannot find how to set the printer and paper profile to the equipment and paper I use.

If you have photoshop, try it. Or find how to reset the printer and paper profile and let lightroom do the color management, not the printer!

There's a useful tutorial about printer management on the Luminous Landscape website.

Hope this helps,

Graeme

[graeme_clarke]

Michel - the Luminous Landscape reference is:

Understanding Printer Colour Management

Hope it goes well for you,

Graeme

[strick]

Check out the expiry dates of your ink cartridges. Only one cartridge which ran out can cause this problem.

Cheers
Greg

[Michel Boda]

Rob, Graeme, Greg,

Thanks for your contribution. I will try all your advices and revert but it will take some days.

[wda]

One other thought; try and obtain custom profiles for your printer/paper combination and follow the advice above in setting the printer. The old forum had plenty of threads offering advice on print profiling.

David

[earleygallery]

If you're getting the right result on the screen, and assuming your montior is calibrated, then it must be a problem at the printer end - blocked nozzles or empty/faulty cartridge?

[flatfour]

Graeme - the instructions in Luminous Landscape don't apply to my version of Photoshop (7.0)