can't print a good copy from Lightroom and/or photoshopw: I have no idea what I am doing wrong when I print anything on glossy paper. All the pictures come out with a haze or like a...

pooralice Loc: merced, ca

I have no idea what I am doing wrong when I print anything on glossy paper. All the pictures come out with a haze or like a lite gray fog over the entire paper. I am using a canon pro 100 and dell monitor. Never had an issue before. the screen goods great; but when is come out of the printer it spits the enter picture, but with a fog over the top of it. Help! any suggestions........

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

No one can help if you don't go through the steps, including the settings.

lautenk2

I have no idea why you're having that problem, but my Canon Pro9000 mk2 came with s/w (Canon Easy-PhotoPrint EX) to print from .jpg files. The canon s/w seems more straightforward to use than print command built into any photo editing app I've tried, and seems to offer easier control of printer specific options, like paper types, etc. Should be easy to try that and compare, maybe learn something useful about this fog problem. You would think that a pro 100 would have more options to experiment with than the older 9000 mk2 (and you would think that the Canon s/w should let you get to all the options on that printer that exist). I've been thinking of upgrading to a pro 100 so I'm interested in this problem. Good Luck.

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

You need to hardware calibrate your video card/display with your printer to get accurate colors. Something like Datacolor Spyder or Color Munki. Software calibration just won't do it.

http://spyder.datacolor.com/portfolio-view/spyder5pro/

rdubreuil Loc: Dummer, NH USA

As already stated calibrate both monitor and printer. Once that's done and you are printing out an image, in the settings there is a choice between letting the printer control color rendition or the software application (such as LR or PS) always let the software application have control not the printer, I'm sure you'll get better results.

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

rdubreuil wrote:

As already stated calibrate both monitor and printer. Once that's done and you are printing out an image, in the settings there is a choice between letting the printer control color rendition or the software application (such as LR or PS) always let the software application have control not the printer, I'm sure you'll get better results.

Also, use the correct ICC for the paper you are using

easy8

Your using sub par paper try red river glossy it's on sale now or canon pro luster

WayneT Loc: Paris, TN

I agree with what is stated above but a big mistake for many people is trying to let the printer handle the print. Let the Lightroom handle it instead. A great inexpensive book you can get on basic print is Robin Wally's book "Perfect Prints Every Time". It's short, sweet and to the point and well worth the $4.99 they charge for it.

https://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Prints-Every-Time-photographic-ebook/dp/B00VAH8HU2/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1492601509&sr=1-9&keywords=Robin+Whalley

foathog Loc: Greensboro, NC

pooralice wrote:

I have no idea what I am doing wrong when I print anything on glossy paper. All the pictures come out with a haze or like a lite gray fog over the entire paper. I am using a canon pro 100 and dell monitor. Never had an issue before. the screen goods great; but when is come out of the printer it spits the enter picture, but with a fog over the top of it. Help! any suggestions........

what paper are you using???? Is it a "Canon" paper?

pooralice Loc: merced, ca

First, I have calibrated both printer and monitor with the smile (can not afford anything better) and I am using canon paper, but the paper is old; I was trying to get rid of it and use it up. I will brake down and use the good stuff, red river. I will get the wally's book. I will go thru all the steps again and make sure I have all setup again. New paper, right ICC, using, let lightroom handle all.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

pooralice wrote:

First, I have calibrated both printer and monitor with the smile (can not afford anything better) and I am using canon paper, but the paper is old; I was trying to get rid of it and use it up. I will brake down and use the good stuff, red river. I will get the wally's book. I will go thru all the steps again and make sure I have all setup again. New paper, right ICC, using, let lightroom handle all.

Before you do that, be sure that the printer and the software are not BOTH trying to manage the color.

When my Pro-100 was new, the prints were bad. The default in the printer driver is for the Pro-100 to manage the color. The default in the Lightroom print module is for it to manage the color. They fight when done that way. One or the other has to do it.

Canon does not make finding where to turn off the color management easy. But it is there. It is a lot easier in Lightroom. Most prefer having Lightroom do it. For reasons I don't understand, I get better results by having the printer manage the color.

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

I usually print from Windows instead of LR. Just seems things turn out better with no surprises. I know this doesn't answer your question, but if you print from Windows, do you still get that same effect?

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

pooralice wrote:

First, I have calibrated both printer and monitor with the smile (can not afford anything better) and I am using canon paper, but the paper is old; I was trying to get rid of it and use it up. I will brake down and use the good stuff, red river. I will get the wally's book. I will go thru all the steps again and make sure I have all setup again. New paper, right ICC, using, let lightroom handle all.

Download the plugin from Canon called Print Studio Pro. You can find it in the download section of the Canon site for that printer. This will make it easy to choose the correct profiles when printing in LR. What is probably happening is that you have a setting wrong in your print driver. It's difficult to understand and to find where to disable the color handling in the driver so that LR handles the color and profiles. Use it to avoid the dreaded "double profiling" conflict. But with Print Studio Pro it's much easier and straight forward. This plugin is designed for that printer and the other pro printers by Canon. If you were to call Canon, the first thing they would insist on is that you use this plugin.

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

jeep_daddy wrote:

Download the plugin from Canon called Print Studio... (show quote)

So is this a plug in for LR? And then do you print through it instead of through the normal print controls?

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

AzPicLady wrote:

So is this a plug in for LR? And then do you print through it instead of through the normal print controls?

Yes it's for most applications like Lightroom and Photoshop. I believe it will work in a couple of other editing programs as well such as Paint Shop Pro.