S800 color off

[Soja]

I have a Canon S800 with Adobe Photoshop and cannot get the color right no matter how I mess with the settings. I can get it fine on the screen but it prints too pinkish or something. I have changed profiles and all that other stuff and it gets no better, sometimes it's worse.
While searching the web for an answer I came upon a web page with a program called "AMS Color Darkroom V1.0" It's supposed to fine tune the profile. The documentation tells how to load the profile but I cannot find a Canon profile at all.
Can someone point me to the ICS profile for the S800? Any other help would be appreciated as I am reluctant to buy the software if I have no profile to change.
Please help!!!!
Thank you.
Soja

[dtrayers]

Hi Soja,

I have a Canon S820, which is for the most part identical to your S800.

You didn't mention what paper you are trying. I have excellent results with Kodak Premium and Kodak Ultima.

Here is a thread on the G3 forum where I posted my settings:

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=9482

I did a lot of testing with various papers and settings. I did notice that selecting "Plain Paper" resulted in a slight pink cast. It wasn't present when I selected Photo Paper Pro or some of the other photo papers.

Make sure your monitor is calibrated with Adobe Gamma Utility first.

I can hold a print to my LCD and the colors are almost spot on. I'm very pleased with the results.

[henkbos]

Have the same problem, but hardly print anything. Colors are OK but not great. There is a profile that comes with the printer. Do a scan on all icm files. If you can't find it let me know so I can mail it to you.

[john_houghton]

Profile editors can be a bit picky about the files they will process. It's possible that the file you want is installed but the AMS program won't recognise it. In these circumstances, simply opening and saving the file in another profile editor can be enough to correct the problem.

John

[Soja]

john_houghton wrote:
Profile editors can be a bit picky about the files they will process. It's possible that the file you want is installed but the AMS program won't recognise it. In these circumstances, simply opening and saving the file in another profile editor can be enough to correct the problem.

John...
I searched for all the files and found them but the program (You can download it and run it 5 times before you buy it) only shows it's a black & white profile. The documentation says it won't edit a profile that takes "LAB" information. Is this my problem? I'm real fuzzy on 'lab-icc-ics, etc.' I've tried to edit both the rgb and cymk profiles with the same result.
Thanks for answering...
Jim (Soja)