Peter Galbavy
Member
Been suffering a bit this weekend. I just took delivery of a Dell U2711 which seems an excellent monitor for the price - apart from the hardware fault of the flickering right hand side but Dell are shipping a replacement - and so I decided to get back to converting and printing, especially as a friends birthday present was supposed to be prints of a previous birthday party (from 3 years ago, cough).
So, the general equipment list is this:
Canon 1DsIII
Windows 7 64-bit
Canon DPP 3.9.2
Canon Easy Photoprint Pro (latest)
Dell U2711
Canon 9550 (Original)
Ilford Smooth Multiuse or Fine Art papers
Color Munki Photo
To start from scratch I did this:
1. I have set the monitor to AdobeRGB and created a profile for it.
2. I printed test charts on both papers and created ICCv2 profiles (v4 do not work with Canon's Photoprint Pro tool)
3. I carefully adjusted a couple of sample shots (both heavy on caucasian skin tones) and tried to print them on both Ilford papers.
DPP has default workspace set to AdobeRGB and I have checked that the images I am using as samples do not have overrides - they are both set to AdobeRGB too.
I am using Photoprint Pro because other methods have been just as unsuccessful and Canon claim this prints with a direct path to the printer, by passing Windows driver stacks etc. They also claim in their literature a direct CR2 -> print conversion path, so no trouble with 16 bit TIFFs and colorspace headaches from the past.
Results: Blerch. Skintones are greenish and look like the subjects are ill.
The printer is OK, done all the nozzle checks and cleaning and all is working.
I am thinking "paper" now and looking to see how much Canon paper I might have left over that is classed as compatible with a pigment printer. I am also considering going back to an sRGB workflow which seemed to work far better for me. Breezebrowser and default printing seemed to work once. I was trying to take advantage of 16-bit printing and a hoped for improvment in tonal graduations etc.
Anyone got any more ideas for now ?
So, the general equipment list is this:
Canon 1DsIII
Windows 7 64-bit
Canon DPP 3.9.2
Canon Easy Photoprint Pro (latest)
Dell U2711
Canon 9550 (Original)
Ilford Smooth Multiuse or Fine Art papers
Color Munki Photo
To start from scratch I did this:
1. I have set the monitor to AdobeRGB and created a profile for it.
2. I printed test charts on both papers and created ICCv2 profiles (v4 do not work with Canon's Photoprint Pro tool)
3. I carefully adjusted a couple of sample shots (both heavy on caucasian skin tones) and tried to print them on both Ilford papers.
DPP has default workspace set to AdobeRGB and I have checked that the images I am using as samples do not have overrides - they are both set to AdobeRGB too.
I am using Photoprint Pro because other methods have been just as unsuccessful and Canon claim this prints with a direct path to the printer, by passing Windows driver stacks etc. They also claim in their literature a direct CR2 -> print conversion path, so no trouble with 16 bit TIFFs and colorspace headaches from the past.
Results: Blerch. Skintones are greenish and look like the subjects are ill.
The printer is OK, done all the nozzle checks and cleaning and all is working.
I am thinking "paper" now and looking to see how much Canon paper I might have left over that is classed as compatible with a pigment printer. I am also considering going back to an sRGB workflow which seemed to work far better for me. Breezebrowser and default printing seemed to work once. I was trying to take advantage of 16-bit printing and a hoped for improvment in tonal graduations etc.
Anyone got any more ideas for now ?