Pixma Pro9000 and ColorMunki.

I just recently picked up a new Dell U2410 for photo editing. I was also recommended a ColorMunki Monitor calibrator instead of a i1D2 for the wide gamut display.

I am just wondering if anyone else have any experience profiling a Pixma Pro9000 with the ColorMunki? How would you rate the color accuracy of the prints compared to what you see on the monitor? I know the Pixma Pro9000 doesn't come close to Pixma Pro9500 when it comes to B&W prints, but will the ColorMunki improve that any?

Also lastly, i brought some Canon Fine Art Paper Photo Rag 13x19 paper. For those of you that have experience with that type of particular paper, do you prefer the stock Canon profile, the Hahnemuhle profile, or the custom profile that ColorMunki made?

Nobody?

I know you posted this a long time ago but I just got the same setup. I have a lacie 324 monitor, Canon Pixma 9000 Mark II and colormunki. The calibration of monitor was easy and excellent. My reason to get colormunki was to calbrate printer. This was a challenge. Support from x-Rite is poor. After a lot of wasted prints I finally got it working for lightroom but not photoshop. In preferences, you have to pick version 2 ICC profile for both monitor and printer. To over ride default printer calibration you have to pick generic sRGB drives. This will allow software to control print process. This is the set that took me a long time to figure out.

Once I did this the color has been much better.

Hope that helps

Jdmhood wrote in post #10366541
Also lastly, i brought some Canon Fine Art Paper Photo Rag 13x19 paper. For those of you that have experience with that type of particular paper, do you prefer the stock Canon profile, the Hahnemuhle profile, or the custom profile that ColorMunki made?

There is no "Canon profile" for Hahnemühle paper.

I use an Epson R2880, and the profiles Hahnemühle provides for that are quite good.
Friend of mine recently today a ColorMunki, but I haven't gotten my hands on it yet

Hope to be able to test it in the first weeks of June.

Janardan wrote in post #12447529
In preferences, you have to pick version 2 ICC profile for both monitor and printer. To over ride default printer calibration you have to pick generic sRGB drives. This will allow software to control print process. This is the set that took me a long time to figure out.

Sounds like you aren't calibrating the printer, but trying to "match printer to display"?

There's a link to a tutorial video inthis review. Pretty good step by step instructions.

I use the ColorMunki and 9000MkII combo with great success.
My findings have been that the Canon profiles are good compared to my generated ones.
However, Ilford profiles are horrible!

Jdmhood wrote in post #10366541
I just recently picked up a new Dell U2410 for photo editing. I was also recommended a ColorMunki Monitor calibrator instead of a i1D2 for the wide gamut display.

I am just wondering if anyone else have any experience profiling a Pixma Pro9000 with the ColorMunki? How would you rate the color accuracy of the prints compared to what you see on the monitor? I know the Pixma Pro9000 doesn't come close to Pixma Pro9500 when it comes to B&W prints, but will the ColorMunki improve that any?

Also lastly, i brought some Canon Fine Art Paper Photo Rag 13x19 paper. For those of you that have experience with that type of particular paper, do you prefer the stock Canon profile, the Hahnemuhle profile, or the custom profile that ColorMunki made?

I recently bought a ColorMunki to profile my Pro9000 using Ilford Gallerie Smooth Pearl, after a couple of years trying unsuccessfully to optimise profiles made with a Spyder 3.

Short answer: Color Munki profiles very good right out of the box, much better than either canned Ilford profile or Spyder-generated profiles.

Longer answer: (i) Depending on your operating system, ensuring the targets are printed with no colour management applied can be tricky for Canon printers (esp on Mac as the driver provides no way to turn CM off). I've no experience of doing this on Windows so I'm not going to guess a foolproof process - but I'm sure there is one!

(ii) Let the target prints dry properly before measuring and printing subsequent iterative and/or optimising targets. Even though measurement itself is very quick (cf Spyder or other measurers) ~5minutes max, you need to take a couple of days over it to let the targets dry well before measuring. X-rite says leave them for 10 minutes, but colour changes noticeably over a much longer period than that (at least on Ilford GSP)

I've better monitor print agreement than ever!

Cheers

Tim