Printing is going to do my head in, nothing matches!

Moppie wrote in post #10671841
Any other ideas?

Try a different rendering intent?

René Damkot wrote in post #10671882
Try a different rendering intent?

I'm just playing with that now.

It's interesting it appears that relative in PS looks different to relative in LR, and there are only the two options in LR.


I also went into the driver and made sure everything was set to zero.
There is no option to turn off colour management in the drive, but doing "manual" mode with zero adjustments seems to have the same effect.


I'll let you know what happens after Sunday

Moppie wrote in post #10671902
It's interesting it appears that relative in PS looks different to relative in LR

When printed?
And when starting with ProPhotoRGB in PS, using same settings (bpc?)

I'd understand a difference for perceptual, but have to think about this one
Maybe a different engine used...

Moppie wrote in post #10671902
and there are only the two options in LR.

Yeah. For photographs, only Relative Colorimetric and Perceptual make sense.

René Damkot wrote in post #10671934
When printed?
And when starting with ProPhotoRGB in PS, using same settings (bpc?)

Now your going to confuse me
Everything is in sRGB.

LR uses Melissa RGB internally: that's ProPhotoRGB gamut with a different 'curve'.

So if you start with an sRGB image in PS, I could understand a difference:
Some (more saturated) colors might still be in the image in LR, but out of (sRGB) gamut in PS.

Moppie wrote in post #10671841
Thanks for all the suggestions everyone.

The calibration is done with a Spyder 2 Express, so no option to set the luminance.

And yes, Canon Ink on Canon Photo paper, using the Canon Profile.

Ralph III, I managed to dig up that same post when I first got the printer. You would think Canon could have used a more logical naming sytem

I have however managed to solve the brightness issue.
Turns out the driver was set to "Dark". Changed it to normal and the prints look much better, very, very close to the monitor (allowing for the difference between the two mediums).

I also did a few more tests.
The red actually looks like slight over saturation of any red in the image, mostly around skin tones.

It may simply be a problem with the way Canon did the profile??

Any other ideas?

I have a cheapo MP620 that has been giving me the same problems so I have just been letting the printer color manage for the little stuff I do at home (I always use a lab for "important stuff"). Where exactly did you find this setting for "Dark"? If I could get my prints a little closer at home I might use it more often.

Maybe starting with a known standard print will help to zero in to the problem.
Test images for printing and lens resolution

PDI_Target_AdobeRGB.jp​g test files at the bottom of: http://www.gballard.ne​t/psd/srgbforwww.html

Be sure the one you use is sRGB instead of aRGB or CMYK.