Pixma 8500 magneta -30 ??

[J.A.F. Doorhof]

I recently made the switch from a 950 to the Pixma 8500 and although I love the printer I have to calibrate with magneta -30 ?

I use the correct profiles and have calibrated the monitor with a gretac + profilemaker.
Even when reseting everything to normal profiles I still need magneta -30.
My conclusion is OR I have a faulty machine (don't think so) or something is wrong in the ICC profile of this printer.
Although even on the BJC2000 ICC magneta is way too high.

anyone else with this problem or printer ?

Greetings,
Frank

[IanD]

Frank,
I've been using the same printer for the past 6 weeks and have not had to touch the sliders at all. I'm using Ilforn classic Pearl with the ilford prifiles, manual colour selection in the Canon driver with ICC profile enabled. Are you using the same setting?

[J.A.F. Doorhof]

Hi,
I use the PS1 setting with Canon's own photopaper plus.
It's really terrible, I have finetuned it further with my printer profile software and Magneta on -34 has the desired setting.

I use everything the same as with the i950 in PS only I now select Pixma8500 ps1 profiling.

Can you mail me a ICC profile maybe that's better than what I have now.

[DeeplyDigital]

I use the i965 and have to reduce the magenta a lot.
For some reason I have to print through CMYK, while leaving the
colour profile as is - my prints come out great, even the B&Ws.

It doesn't matter what your settings are, what matters is that
your prints are good.

J.
(always Ilford paper)

[J.A.F. Doorhof]

I downloaded the new drivers from the Canon site and now magnenta is on zero, ICM on and the prints are PERFECT.

I think it was a driver problem.

[IanD]

I downloaded the new drivers from the Canon site and now magnenta is on zero, ICM on and the prints are PERFECT.

I think it was a driver problem.
Frank,
I was just about to ask if you were using the new drivers...... :) :) :)
you beat me to it. Great printer huh?

[J.A.F. Doorhof]

A little bit better than the i950 which allready beat the prints from my local proshop to pulp :D.
Maybe my local proprintshop is not so good, but I prefer the prints.

Man was that different 2 years ago LOL.

[johnellisphotography]

Usually, a strong magenta cast means that you have color managed the document twice or not at all depending on which brand. For instance you might have selected the paper's output ICC profile in photoshop but forgot to set the print drivers to not color manage. You could test this by setting photoshops output to "Printer Control" and telling the printer what your paper selection is.