Pixma pro 100 issues

[mporter012]

Hi!

I basically do not understand digital technology - let me start out saying that. I picked up the darkroom in 4 hours, and I've been trying to understand the unbearably obnoxious laborious process of getting a digital printing workflow straightened out, and I'm still trying!

Last week I calibrated my 13" Macbook Pro monitor using a Spyder5Express. I'm using Ilford's Galerie Prestige Silk paper along with its ICC profile and I open up the Black & White image in PS CS6. Resize & sharpen for output. I convert the image's profile to sRGB. Soft proof the image using the correct ICC profile with "Black Point Compensation" checked. It appears to be slightly less punchy in the blacks but the image is still acceptable. Under the print settings, I ensure Photoshop manages color and the printer profile is set to the paper's ICC profile. Additionally I set the media type to "Pro Luster" which I think matches the paper (although I'm not sure about this...). I'm not really sure what effect the media type has on the final print as well...

What I'm getting is warm prints that are leaning heavily towards magenta and I'd say it's printing a 1/2-1 stop dark (in darkroom lingo). Should I send out a print for custom ICC profiling? How should I go about with getting the correct tones and exposure during soft proofing? I usually adjust via Levels and Color Balance but I feel like I'm just guessing.

I continue to DESPISE photo editing programs.

Help me!

 

[Zerofox79]

I picked up a Pixma Pro-100/paper combo about a year ago knowing full well that the reason that the printer was practically free was to get me to but more ink and paper in the future. I delayed setting it up for many months, until I was finally fed up with the results and cost of printing at the local photo shop. Thus far I have been happy with it.

 

[mdarnton]

Magenta printing, in my experience, comes from picking the wrong paper or selecting something wrong in Photoshop. I've gone through this several times with different Canon printers, and still don't exactly remember how I fixed it, but ultimately it was a settings problem. I'm thinking that it was something in PS--Dog knows, there's enough in there to get set wrong!

 

[mdarnton]

On further thought, maybe it was about letting them both control the color, by mistake.??

 

[jtk]

Hi!

I basically do not understand digital technology - let me start out saying that. I picked up the darkroom in 4 hours, and I've been trying to understand the unbearably obnoxious laborious process of getting a digital printing workflow straightened out, and I'm still trying!

Last week I calibrated my 13" Macbook Pro monitor using a Spyder5Express. I'm using Ilford's Galerie Prestige Silk paper along with its ICC profile and I open up the Black & White image in PS CS6. Resize & sharpen for output. I convert the image's profile to sRGB. Soft proof the image using the correct ICC profile with "Black Point Compensation" checked. It appears to be slightly less punchy in the blacks but the image is still acceptable. Under the print settings, I ensure Photoshop manages color and the printer profile is set to the paper's ICC profile. Additionally I set the media type to "Pro Luster" which I think matches the paper (although I'm not sure about this...). I'm not really sure what effect the media type has on the final print as well...

What I'm getting is warm prints that are leaning heavily towards magenta and I'd say it's printing a 1/2-1 stop dark (in darkroom lingo). Should I send out a print for custom ICC profiling? How should I go about with getting the correct tones and exposure during soft proofing? I usually adjust via Levels and Color Balance but I feel like I'm just guessing.

I continue to DESPISE photo editing programs.

Help me!

If you keep it simple and apply traditional wet darkroom color printing skills you will be happy. If you don't have those skills you need to learn how to use the appropriate tools, such as Photoshop.