disabling the printers colour management

[David Rowland]

it says "remember to ‘bypass’ Photoshop colour management"… it means don’t use TWO sets of colour management… the one from your RIP and the one from the Photoshop output

Edit: nope.. i just re-read it… but you should be letting the RIP do the work not Photoshop!

[Adam Hilson]

Cheers Dave

I don’t understand. At the moment no matter what profile I use the print is still the same, very dark. I have only had this problem since buying the macs. It has had this error message Since I bought them. So how am I using 2sets of colour management and how can I stop using the other one.

Cheers Dave

[David Rowland]

Ok let me explain

This might be useful to watch, it is explaining the Epson and Photoshop working together.

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With regards Canon, I don’t know if this machine has a RIP or not or just a print-dialog, I don’t have a canon, but in my setup both my printers have a RIP which is tuned to adjust colours for the paper/vinyl that is within it, we choose a material when using the RIP.

So what happens with a real RIP, the Printer Profiles are measured professionally with a colour instrument, this determines how white the paper is and what colours work best with it (in simple terms), this is then stored so the user can choose which paper.

However there is other things like CMYK and RGB colour spaces and whole host of things… so basically it is asking if you want Photoshop to adjust the colours or let the RIP do it.

In my case, I would be saving a TIF/PDF from Photoshop and then loading it into my RIP, the file will contact the colour space profiles and thats all i need. I would then be NOT be disabling the printers colour management and I wouldn’t want Photoshop to alter it… all it needs is the Profiles set correctly like Adobe RGB or Euroscape CYMK embedded in the file (depending on your results).

Colour management is a massive subject!!

[Adam Hilson]

Hay Dave

Thats helpful, But i cant get rid of the message. The canon ipf8100 is water based ink and runs off the print dialog box.

The only window i can find is this one which relates to colour. Its faded so cant change anything

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[David Rowland]

ignore the message.. and carry on as u haven’t seen it

[Adam Hilson]

Cheers Dave I like your thinking

ill have another try later. I think when I did it last time no matter what profile I used (mine or canons) it printed the same.

Cheers Adam

[Richard Wills]

yep, that is colorsync recogninsing that you’ve got Photoshop managing colour, and so it is not offering any colour management options in the Canon print dialogue.

"At the moment no matter what profile I use the print is still the same, very dark. I have only had this problem since buying the macs"
This wouldn’t be an iMac would it – the screens on them are way too bright by default, and so the prints come out dark… (Ignore that, if you’re getting dark prints from previously printed files).