Datacolor User to User Support Group.

> On Nov 21, 2016, at 1:45 PM, roland randall strawberryvale2001@....uk [datacolor_group] <datacolor_group@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Hi , The display is good , its just printing with a canon pro 100 I cannot get vibrant colours at all....
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Ok, so then that’s a completely different issue, and doesn’t have anything to do with
Spyder5Pro itself or display calibration.

What you’re describing is most likely to be, incorrect use of the Canon Pro 100 printer
driver and/or its settings. There’s a great deal of information on the Internet about the
right and wrong ways to do this and a detailed discussion goes well beyond the scope
of the group. I’ll offer a few quick suggestions and pointers:

- If you’re printing from Photoshop; there are a couple of right ways to do it, and one
that’s very wrong. IF you choose “Photoshop Manages Colors” in the Print dialog, make
sure that you choose an actual printer profile for your Canon, in the popup below that.
DO NOT choose sRGB, AdobeRGB, your display profile, or anything else that’s not the
proper Canon printer profile for that printer, paper, and ink. If you print with
“Photoshop Manages Colors” and “sRGB” in the popup below that, your print will be
wrong; not color managed at all; uncalibrated; and the print will be dull and lifeless.

- There are 2 “right” ways to print from Photoshop:

   - Choose “Printer Manages Colors” and then in the page setup/printer driver windows
      (these vary based on your operating system/computer and versions), make sure you
      select a paper type that matches what you’re printing on. When you do all of this,
      the built-in profiles in the printer driver should be used automatically, for the type
      of paper you’ve selected, and you should get a “good” print.

   - Choose “Photoshop Manages Colors” and then choose the correctly Canon Pro 100
      profile for the kind of paper you’re printing on, in the popup below. This should
      give you the same basic results as “Printer Manages Colors” but you have the added
      flexibility of choosing a rendering intent when printing.

- So there you go: the most common “wrong way”; and 2 ways to do it right. :-) Hope
that helps!


David Miller
Manager/Lead Developer, Consumer Software, Datacolor