I have this weird problem when printing a photo from Photoshop.
This is my configuration: Leopard Photoshop CS3 profiled and calibrated monitor Canon ip8500 custom-built ICC profile for the brand of paper I’m using
When I print from PS I have PS do the colour management, I select the custom-built profile and in the printer dialogue box I turn off the printer’s colour management. The results of the prints, however, are horrible: there’s a magenta cast and skin tones are oversaturated, which suggests to me that some kind of double colour management is taking place. The weird thing about this is that when I use exactly the same procedure in Lightroom, the prints are spot on!
and in the printer dialogue box I turn off the printer’s colour management.
Exactly how do you know that you’ve successfully turned off the driver’s color management? The results you report, magenta cast are indeed the expected results of double color management. So, while you THINK you’ve turned off color management in the Canon driver, apparently you have not actually done so. As RamΓ³n indicates, the Canon driver is, uh, hard to figure out…so you should take steps to figure out how to do so….
You can’t really turn Color Management off in Photoshop, anywhere, even if you try. What you turn off are Color Adjustments by the printer driver. Huge difference.
Under Colour Matching ColorSync is checked, but it’s greyed out as well, so I can’t change anything. What is this ColorSync all about?
Is this the same way in LR?
Then I would suggest trying the ColorSync workaround. Just to see if it makes any difference. You’ll know that way if your being force to double profiling.
I found it and tried it out (to the letter!). Doesn’t seem to do anything. There’s still this magenta cast. So I guess, double profiling is still going on.
Since LR works fine, I guess I’ll do all my printing using that application then. π
Still, it strikes me as odd that LR works fine, and PS does not. This suggests to me that there’s a problem with PS and not so much with the Canon driver (although, I absolutely agree it would be wonderful if Canon finally allowed us to truly switch off colour management in their driver).
