LR CC vs. Canon's Print Studio Pro plug-in

Hello all,

We just got a hold of a Canon Pro--1000 printer. We used to have an Epson P600 but we made the switch for higher print sizes and price coming down.

Now that we use Canon printers it seems there is a plug-in for Canon for Lightroom. I've seen people saying they use LR direct to printer and also people saying they use the Studio plug-in.

Why does Canon provide this? LR print module seems to be fine. You can do sharpening, ICC selection, soft proofing. What is the compelling reason to use the Studio Plug-in instead of native LR features? I have to believe it can do something that LR cannot because to be honest it seems to be a bit of a pain to have to add an extra software module to the workflow. Not to mention I think it's written in Java and seems slower in updating changes that are made to the print output selections.

Anyway, just looking for some points here in why we should bother with it (or not bother with it).

Thanks
T

I prefer studio print pro over lightroom with my pixma pro1. I get better results with it, LR is flatter. And I find it easy to use but that maybe just me.

Hi PCS,

Thank you for your response. So how does LR look flatter. Have you disabled color matching I the Canon preferences? That was messing up my prints when printings directly from LR and using ICC in LR.

I've been reading a lot of back and forth about the data pipeline between either LR to Canon XPS driver or LR to Canon Print Studio Plug-in to Canon XPS driver.

Some are claiming with LR ( on Windows), LR will push 8 pits per channel as opposed to Print Studio Plug-in using 16 bits per channel to the XPS driver. I guess I have a couple of questions about this:

1. Is this still the case? Alot of the literature is from 2016 ( or around that time)
2. If 1 is true, is there any way around this? Is the 16BPC vs. 8 BPC really making a differencem

Using the PSP instead of LR print module would bug me and has each time I've used it. Not having the output sharpening would suck

Any other thoughts m

With flatter I mean just a bit less vibrant, less like on my screen not complete wrong like when you have double colour management in LR and printer driver.

8 o 16 bit: no idea it's just my personal experience that using the canon printer software I get more pleasing/exact prints. Before I had a pixma 9500II and I used the precursor for print studio pro(can't remember the name) direct from canon DPP(exported a jpeg from LR and open in DPP->print). Now I use the plug-in direct from LR.