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Been fighting with trying to get decent color balance with this thing. I've
been using an 8200 for years using "auto" with no corrections in the driver
and using the "printer color management" setting in PS, it has always
looked just like the screen. Nice skin tones from in camera images on 2
different cameras etc. These same files print nice at the lab using no
corrections. They might need a tweak now and then to be "perfect" but it's
always pretty close to good first shot.
With this new printer, every print has a =strong= magenta cast. Not a
"tweak" but a really strong one. I tried different ICM files inside PS
turning off the ICM in the printer driver exactly like the canon ICM PDF
file explains to do if not using auto, same thing as using auto. Tried ICM
files from Ilford (even though I'm not using their paper) and got a
slightly different version of this same cast so it IS reading the ICM file
I tell it to use. If I manually set the printer driver to -30 mageneta
turning off ICM in the driver and setting the canon ICM in PS, it's getting
close but seems odd a printer would be this far off out of the box. I'm
using canon paper and ink, have the driver set to use this specific paper
etc. I can't believe they all are like this.
The other thing that seems odd, if I do a "soft proof" with the ICM file for
my old 8200, it doesn't change the image much at all. If I do it with this
new printer, it drastically changes it. Is that normal? If this is the
case, am I going to have to manually color balance every shot using this
soft proof? If so, this things going back and I'll wait for the new epson
2200 replacement.
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Stacey
Been fighting with trying to get decent color balance with this thing. I've
been using an 8200 for years using "auto" with no corrections in the driver
and using the "printer color management" setting in PS, it has always
looked just like the screen. Nice skin tones from in camera images on 2
different cameras etc. These same files print nice at the lab using no
corrections. They might need a tweak now and then to be "perfect" but it's
always pretty close to good first shot.
With this new printer, every print has a =strong= magenta cast. Not a
"tweak" but a really strong one. I tried different ICM files inside PS
turning off the ICM in the printer driver exactly like the canon ICM PDF
file explains to do if not using auto, same thing as using auto. Tried ICM
files from Ilford (even though I'm not using their paper) and got a
slightly different version of this same cast so it IS reading the ICM file
I tell it to use. If I manually set the printer driver to -30 mageneta
turning off ICM in the driver and setting the canon ICM in PS, it's getting
close but seems odd a printer would be this far off out of the box. I'm
using canon paper and ink, have the driver set to use this specific paper
etc. I can't believe they all are like this.
The other thing that seems odd, if I do a "soft proof" with the ICM file for
my old 8200, it doesn't change the image much at all. If I do it with this
new printer, it drastically changes it. Is that normal? If this is the
case, am I going to have to manually color balance every shot using this
soft proof? If so, this things going back and I'll wait for the new epson
2200 replacement.
--
Stacey