Jonathan

Installed new Pixma Pro-100 yesterday; calibration was undramatic and accurate. However after saving “Color Management” properties Default Rendering Intent as Perceptual and the remaining properties as Photography, all of the images on my HP laptop’s hard drive including pictures of my grandchildren taken by other people and imported over the past 10 months, have taken on a highly intensified pink hue. Pink skin tones; pink tinted B & W images! It even appears that the RAW images have a tint. I don’t know how that is possible. How can I ‘reset’ my images? Thanks.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

What software are you using? What is your printing workflow?

My first guess is that your image files have not changed.

Jonathan

First noticed it running a test print on the Pixma. Also dropped some new pics in Canon's DPP and notice the 'pink shift right away. But images processed with GIMP and Photoscape also appear intensified and colorized.

Jonathan

This prints bright pink. The picture is 2 years old and previously printed a washed out orange tire with accurate blue as a control in the citibank bicycle in the background. Now, without touching it, it's become intense Salvador Dali orange and prints very very pink! All of my files seem to now have a pink hue. Don't know how this is possible but it sure seems real.
Thanks,

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

I don't know about DPP, Gimp and Photoscape. I know that Lightroom and Photoshop want to manage the color by default. The Pro-100 wants to manage the color. They both can't do it at the same time.

I know from experience and reading that letting them fight over it creates symptoms like you describe.

Most turn off the color management in the printer completely and control it from their editor. I've turned it off in my software and let the Pro-100 driver do it.

Canon's instructions are not exactly clear on how and where to turn off the color management. Say so if you need help finding it.

Jonathan

Yes, I think that is what happened-control in the printer vs. control in the pp software. I called Canon and we went through every step of the installation. In the Advanced Settings, Color Management-I had changed some of the defaults which were for document production and graphics to Photography which seemed logical. Canon had me go back in Color Management and reset defaults. The canon calibration test was fine after that but again when printing a picture-- still pick. The faces are pink when I just view them on my computer. Canon says that when I changed Color Management, I must have done something to my color setting on my laptop as they don't think the Printer could so effect my images.

So apparently one should not modify anything in Color Management and still-- I don't have a solution to revert my images to their pre-pink status. How to do that? I love photography, had a darkroom for 30+ years buy can't set up a new printer without messing up my images. How to fix this whole mess? Thank you. Thank you.