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p.1 #1 · Canon 9500......color issue

Any help on a 9500 would be appreciated. I seem to be having some color issues with my printer, my pixma 600 prints more accurate colors. I am using the same paper and color profiles for both but the 9500 seems lacking in greens mostly. No issues with ink I have changed that as well. Any thoughts would be helpful.

Feb 07, 2010 at 02:50 AM

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p.1 #2 · Canon 9500......color issue

re-profile your 9500

Feb 07, 2010 at 02:56 AM

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p.1 #3 · Canon 9500......color issue

I have a Pro 9000 and when things go wacky, I run the head cleaning and alignment to get things back to normal.

Feb 07, 2010 at 03:44 PM

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umm are you supposed to use the same profiles for both the Pixma 6000 and 9500?

Feb 09, 2010 at 07:08 PM

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p.1 #5 · Canon 9500......color issue

Is your workflow color managed? i.e., is your monitor calibrated, are you using the appropriate profiles for your paper and ink? Are your "who manages color" settings correct?

There are a lot of things that affect print color.

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Feb 09, 2010 at 09:28 PM

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p.1 #6 · Canon 9500......color issue

E-Vener wrote:
umm are you supposed to use the same profiles for both the Pixma 6000 and 9500?

Unless they are using the same print heads and inks... no...

I have a 5100 and all of the x100 printers use the same print heads (the bigger ones use two) and the same inks.. So my office-mate who knows WAY more about profiling then I do profile's her 9100 and then installs the profile's on my print computer.

Feb 09, 2010 at 11:52 PM

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Nathan Whitchu wrote:
E-Vener wrote:
umm are you supposed to use the same profiles for both the Pixma 6000 and 9500?

Unless they are using the same print heads and inks... no...

That was my exact point.

I have a 5100 and all of the x100 printers use the same print heads (the bigger ones use two) and the same inks.. So my office-mate who knows WAY more about profiling then I do profile's her 9100 and then installs the profile's on my print computer.
I have an IPF6100 and a friend in PA has an iPF9100 and we do the same thing. Once you have calibrated yopur iPF x100 imagePROGRAF (note that calibration is NOT the same thing as profiling ) you can indeed swap profiles.

The difference between calibrating a printer and profiling a printer is simple. Calibrating makes sure the printer is working exactly to factory spec. Canon specifies certain papers for this.

Profiling a printer is about how the printer, the ink and the paper all work together so that the result is as neutral as the combination will allow, in other words so that a 128/128/128 gray prints as 128/128/128 (or as close to that as the paper/printer/ink combination allows and establishes the gamut and the gamma ofthe paperink/printer combination.

The most basic element of color management is of course your display. It has to be calibrated and then profiled for it's individual characteristics as well. ( there are no true sRGB or Adobe RGB(1998) displays. Each individual display is a little bit different from those standards. The purpose of profiling a display is to correct for those variations to a standard.)

If you want to take color management slightly further you deal with the brightness of the display vs. the paper. Eizo monitors (I use an Eizo CG222W display) owners can use their ColorNavigator software and a photospectrometer like the Xrite Eye One Pro and maybe the ColorMunki to create a profile to match the display to the exact whiteness you are printing on.

Which brings up the next small step in color management -- the illumination you use to judge and possibly view the print in. Ideally the profile you use should take this into account.

Feb 10, 2010 at 01:37 AM

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E-Vener wrote:
Nathan Whitchu wrote:
E-Vener wrote:
umm are you supposed to use the same profiles for both the Pixma 6000 and 9500?

Unless they are using the same print heads and inks... no...

That was my exact point.

I have a 5100 and all of the x100 printers use the same print heads (the bigger ones use two) and the same inks.. So my office-mate who knows WAY more about profiling then I do profile's her 9100 and then installs the profile's on my print computer.
I have an IPF6100 and a friend in PA has an iPF9100 and we do the same thing. Once you have calibrated yopur iPF x100 imagePROGRAF (note that calibration is NOT the same thing as profiling ) you can indeed swap profiles.

The difference between calibrating a printer and profiling a printer is simple. Calibrating makes .................... Ideally the profile you use should take this into account.

Which is precisely why I let my office mate, who's been doing it as a living for around a decade, do it all for me. She has all the equipment and knowledge to do profile, calibrate, repair, use different inks and do anything to a printer you need to do. I just buy the ink and paper she tells me to and my prints come out fantastic.

Feb 10, 2010 at 01:14 PM


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