I am wondering if anyone is using a 5DII and a Pixma Pro9000 Mk I?
I can't seem to get accurate colors, I've been reading guides and tips and nothing seems to work? I have very flat reds, and most has a green/yellow haze?
I am wondering if anyone is using a 5DII and a Pixma Pro9000 Mk I?
I can't seem to get accurate colors, I've been reading guides and tips and nothing seems to work? I have very flat reds, and most has a green/yellow haze?
Any help would be appreciated.
-Patrick
Ive been using the pro9000 and if Im printing a photo that has brown tone to it, it will turn to a greenish tint, I tried everything to fix that, looks like its going back!
I am sure there is some calibration needed. A Pixma pro is capable of printing great colours in the right colour space.
Anyway be sure:
- when in JPG colour space of your 5D and printer is the same (sRGB, Adobe RGB, etc.)
- when in RAW, be sure you convert to the desired colour space
- when editing on the monitor, have it calibrated for the right colour temperature
- when editing on the monitor, have it calibrated with the right Gamma setting
- when printing have the right colour space chosen on the printer (same setting as camera and or computer)
- when printing have the right medium (paper) with it's belonging setting right
- when you are demanding the utmost precision work with ICC profiles, either from the different manufacturers of all the components in the colour management line (camera, monitor, printer/paper combination) or make ICC profiles yourself
Even though there are many many strategies and tools for calibration, I have always been most succesful by shooting a reference card and calibrate monitor and printer purely on visual feedback. Just shoot the reference card and calibrate your monitor visually and after that calibrate your printer to get things as close as similar to the reference card as possible. Look careful for the deepest blacks and highest whites and use the mid greys to get colour dye cast out and balance the whole colour to neutral. After that straighten the hue and saturation for several colours to your taste.
There is quite some information if you read some posts on colo(u)r management, via search on this site.
Eosfun, does the pixma pro 9000 mk I print in the adobe RGB color space? If it does, I've been missing out. Every time I print a RGB file it looks exactly as the OP described. If I convert the image to sRGB and print it, it looks fine.
I don't know any printer that prints in Adobe RGB, almost every printer has a (much) more limited colour gamut than the Adobe's reference. Adobe RGB is a colour space that deserves it's place as an editing standard. However it's important to have the conversion from monitor based files that are sent to the driver of the printer done according to settings of colour management in the same defined colour space. In my experience sRGB works the least problematic, even though theoretically a few printers print more accurately in Adobe RGB (when supported by the driver or ICC profile of course'. If you are happy with sRGB, stay with it, and just be sure to have the monitor color space set in the same color space as the printer.
charld wrote:
Patrick/Avi I dont have the 5d mk2 but i get perfect prints from my 1ds mk3 on my Pixma Pro9000 Mk I.
1 - let us know what software you are using to print - are you "processing it" 2 times
2 - what paper are you using? (select the right profile if you are using canon paper)
3 - Is your monitor calibrated?
I edit the photo in lightroom then export it to photoshop because the plug-in for the printer is there, and print.
I do print on the canon paper and I do select the right paper type on the computer, I do notice that its less noticeable on the matt paper, so maybe the gloss coating on the semi gloss and glossy messes it up? I dont know.
So even when the application manages printing (disable all color management via the printer) you still are getting way off colors!!!
1 - In photoshop set the "Color Settings" under the edit menu. Working Color Space to Adobe RGB 1998 if you are printing a RAW/DNG/TIFF (assumes you monitor is properly calibrated as you stated)
2 - Open your image in photoshop, if you get prompt for color space say use embedded color space. when you are in Print screen
1 - "Color handling: Photoshop Manages Colors"
2 - "Printer Profile: SP1 " What ever the name of the paper profile you want
Code Paper Description Quality Setting
SP1 Photo Paper Plus Glossy 1
SP3 Photo Paper Plus Glossy 3
SP4 Photo Paper Plus Glossy 4
3 - "Rendering Intent" Pick the one that looks best to you Perceptual OR Relative
Colorimetric
4 - Click on "page setup..." and select the proper media type: Photo Paper Plus Glossy
5 - for color/intensity set it to "manual" and go to the matching tab and set
Color Correction to None. OK out of the setting and then Print.
I really like my 9000 but i've seen that it does struggle with some colors (reds not being one of them) but maybe you can post a sample of the color you are having issues with or maybe email me a copy...
