Canon ICC Profile Guide - Something New for Canon Printers -- RAW, Post Processing & Printing in photography-on-the.net forums. Some updated thoughts after re-reading my original post of April 2004. The Canon ICC profile guide is intended for Canon printers that come with print media ICC profiles, which are specific to Canon papers and printer driver settings. PR1 = Photo Paper Pro (print quality level 1) PR2 = Photo Paper Pro (quality level 2) SP1 = Photo Paper Plus Glossy (quality level 1) MP1 = Matte Photo Paper (quality level 1) I have the i950 printer which is not supplied with these profiles. So I downloaded and installed the i960 printer driver (the printers are nearly identical), which has the profiles.
I configured my computer to use the i950 driver as my default printer driver. My test: I used an Adobe RGB color space image file PDI Target_AdobeRGB.jpg and isolated the babies in the image to compare skin tones. Images were printed on a Canon i950 with Photo Paper Pro and "Source Space: Document: Adobe RGB" selected in the Print with Preview color management options dialog. 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. Canon printer profiles codes: Printers and Printing Forum: Digital Photography Review. If you want to use the color profiles Canon supply for their printers you have to decipher their codes. Some of this information is on the net elsewhere, but its not complete. Canon have now sent me what appears to be the final part. Here are their two responses. Hope they save someone else the same pain. Dear Customer, Thank you for your recent inquiry regarding your Canon product. In response to your query, please be advised that your Canon printer may have profiles with slightly different names, but just remember that the description includes the printer model followed by the paper type: PR = Photo Paper Pro MP = Matte Photo Paper SP = Photo Paper Plus Glossy and finally the quality setting at the end (1, 2, 3, etc.).
Using the profile description (visible in your photo editor or printing software in the profile selection dialog), you should be able to choose the right profile for your printer and Canon paper. one type of paper. Using ICC Profiles with Canon Printers - Steve's Digicams. Background Last month we discussed how to properly utilize ICC profiles with Epson printers. This month we focus on the use of profiles with Canon printers. Many of the latest Canon printers come with ICC profiles.
Unfortunately, they have cryptic file names such as CNB5CCA0.ICM and descriptions that aren't much more help than the file name such as "Canon i960 PR1". Do you know how to make use of these profiles or even what paper they are for? If not, read on and we'll try to make using these profiles as simple as possible. As we did last month, we will assume for the purpose of this article that you have ICC (color managed) software such as Qimage or PhotoShop that you will be using to print photos.
What is a profile? An ICC profile is a file that describes how to achieve accurate color on your printer with a certain type of paper. Finding the right profile Finding the WRONG profile! General overview of using printer profiles Step 1: Print driver setup Workflow for Qimage and PhotoShop. ICC Profile Inspector. ICC Profile Inspector ICC Profile Inspector enables PC users to explore the contents of an ICC profile. We are grateful to Huan Zeng of HP for making it available and would note that it is to be used at the user's own risk. The author accepts no liability for its behaviour. There are three ways to view an ICC profile with Profile Inspector.
Run ICC Profile Inspector and select an ICC profile using the 'Browse' button. Drag and drop an ICC profile on to the ICC Profile Inspector icon. Right-click an ICC profile, click "Send To" and select ICC Profile Inspector from the list. Profile Inspector also incorporates the ability to modify many of the tag entries in a profile. Download: ICC Profile Inspector 2.4. Tools for making, editing and assessing ICC profiles.
Editing printer profiles - Eye One Match. The latest Eye One Match software from GretagMacbeth (V3.4) includes the ability to edit printer icc (icm) profiles that you have created. Keith has had a look at the software to see how it works and why you might want to use it. 2012 - Note that the currently shipping profiling product from X-Rite (i1Profiler - full review) does not support profile editing any more. You may still find copies of older software/hardware, but do check if they will run on your chosen computer system. Profile editing? The editing software comes as part of the Eye One Match software and needs to have a licensed device attached to your computer, in order to use it. You'll have to check with GMB what particular packages include icc profile editing. Note - see the current X-rite range of products at the end of the article.
Plugging in my Eye One Display did not work (as I'd expect), but my Eye One spectrophotometer did. Note that this is from a GMB Marketing email I received a few months ago: Editing profiles Summary. Little CMS – Great color at small footprint. Argyll Color Management System Home Page. Open source tools. Open source tools This page lists open source tools for making, editing and applying ICC profiles. Note that the ICC provides this list as a convenience to users and does not endorse or recommend individual tools. SampleICCSampleICC is a publicly-available code library which will create, parse, manipulate and apply ICC profiles.
It is also a reference CMM. It includes a utility to test the conformance of a profile with the v4 ICC specification. The IccProfLib subproject library is the heart of the implementation. SampleICC is developed and maintained mainly by ICC members, and includes support for all v4 features including recent additions such as Floating Point / Multi-Processing Elements. IccXMLIccXML is a utility based on SampleICC that converts an ICC profile to an XML encoding, and back from XML to a binary .icc file. ArgyllArgyll is an open source, ICC compatible color management system. LPROFLPROF is an open source ICC profiler, based on lcms, with a graphical user interface.