Black and white with a hint of pink

[Manfred M]

Small caveat: if I set the printing on my Canon Pixmar MG 8120 to B&W, I get the big black "document" cartridge - for which the print resolution in "squirts/sq.mm" is considerable less than that for the color cartridges.

Each printer works a bit differently. For photo printers, there are often two blacks; one for matte papers and one for papers with more gloss. Some printers (like yours?) run a different black cartridge for photo / illustration prints than they do for document prints. I seem to remember looking at one Canon printer that added a gloss finish layer on prints that were printed on a glossier paper; something that is a bit similar that my Canon dye sublimation printer did where it baked on a clear glossy top coat over the four ink colours.

[Rufus]

Canon have responded and clarified their view of the appropriate printer settings and I have now used it in practice.

I use Canon papers and you may recall that the printer is a Pixma iP4700 which is quite an old non-professional model, but of course the principles may be applicable to newer models.

The terminology does not exactly match my printer driver but it is close enough to work out what is meant.

This is what they have said, and it does seem to have helped with the tint problem:

When using the settings for “Photoshop manages colours” please ensure that you have disabled the colour correction in the printer driver because if this isn’t done you get a double profiled print and the colours will not look right.

To adjust the manual colour correction settings:

Open the printer driver setup window
Select the manual color adjustment
On the Main tab, select Manual for Color/Intensity, and click Set....

The Manual Color Adjustment dialog box opens.

Select color correction
Click Matching tab, select Color Correction setting that matches your purpose from the following, and click OK.

Driver Matching

By using Canon Digital Photo Color, you can print sRGB data with color tints that most people prefer.
Driver Matching is the default setting for color correction.

ICM

You can print by using the color space (Adobe RGB or sRGB) of the image data effectively.

None

The printer driver does not perform color correction. Select this value when you are specifying an individually created printing ICC profile or a printing ICC profile for special Canon paper in an application software to print data.

Complete the setup
Click OK on the Main tab.
When you execute print, the data is printed with the specified color correction method.

Please note this information is found in the user guide under Advanced Guide > Printing from a Computer > Printing with Other Application Software > Changing the Print Quality and Correcting Image Data > Specifying Color Correction.

Both settings (driver matching/photoshop manages colours) will give slightly different results but the colour should print correctly and there shouldn’t be any kind of colour cast present when printing in black and white.

The settings apply for both Greyscale and Colour printing.

If you are printing a monochrome image, its best to select the Greyscale printing option so the software/driver knows that it is not a colour image and will only output in the greyscale colour range.

Setting the Photoshop of the printer to manage the colours is entirely up to you. Both settings will render the colours slightly differently so this is down to your personal preference. You may want to try both settings to see which one you prefer. The Canon driver will use a colour that most people prefer but you may have alternative options available in Photoshop.

The Black Point compensation option is used to adjust the maximum black levels when the image is converted from RGB to CMYK. It ensures that the black points in the image are also black on the final output. Again, you may want to try printing with both settings on and off, but this may not do anything depending on what source image you use.

The printer profile you are using is correct, please make sure that the paper type matches the paper you are using (Glossy / Semi-Gloss / Matte etc).


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