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October 15, 2025
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Help with resetting original printer settings in Adobe Illustrator

  • October 15, 2025
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Hi all,  hope there is someone out there that has experienced my dilemma and can help sort my problem out.  I'm a crafter/cardmaker and I purchase digital cliparts for my projects, mostly through Etsy and mainly PDFs/SVGs and jpegs.  I recently purchased a Wedding Couple jpeg, in which the groom was wearing a green suit.  When I went to print out on my Canon Pro-S100 printer the whole clipart printed out in a Sepia/pinkish/orangish colouring.  This is the first time that this has happened, so I contacted the seller on Etsy and she suggested making some changes in the drop down list on the Print Dialogue Box to the 'Color Management' ie. Color Handling and Printer Profile.  The changes made no difference to the colouring, they still printed the same.  A few more changes were proposed, which I carried out, but didn't solve the issue.  

I have never had to make any changes to any cliparts I have previously purchased ... they have always printed out perfectly.  My problem now is that I cannot tell you what settings I have changed or tried at this stage .... trying to get back to where I was before all these changes were made ... but I have projects that I need to work on and can't move on from this.  Can someone please help with my issue, as I need to be able to set everything back to where the original settings should be so I can move forward.  Up to the time of making all these changes, I have never had to make colour changes before to any settings.  I'm quite a basic user to Adobe Illustrator and am not adventurous enough to make these kind of changes.

Would really appreciate someone who knows how to re-set the Adobe Illustrator printer settings for me please.  Kind regards.   Anne

Correct answer LucasDev

Hey Anne, I totally get how frustrating that can be, especially when everything used to print perfectly before. It actually sounds like your color management settings in Illustrator or your printer driver might have gotten changed somewhere along the way.

Here’s what usually helps fix it:

  1. Reset Illustrator’s print settings:

    • Go to Edit > Preferences > General (Windows) or Illustrator > Preferences > General (Mac)

    • Click Reset Preferences.

    • Then restart Illustrator this brings everything back to the default color and print setup.

  2. Check your printer color settings:

    • In the Print dialog, under Color Management, set Color Handling to Let Illustrator Determine Colors.

    • Choose the correct Printer Profile (for Canon printers it’s often something like “Canon PRO-100 <PaperType>”)

    • Make sure Rendering Intent is set to Relative Colorimetric or Perceptual  these work best for clipart.

  3. Double-check the file itself:

    • Sometimes JPEGs come with an embedded color profile (like CMYK instead of RGB). Try opening it in Photoshop or Preview and converting it to RGB before printing.

After resetting everything, try printing a small sample again if it prints in the correct colors, you’ll know the issue was just the color management mismatch.

Let us know if this helps  I had a similar issue once, and resetting preferences + letting Illustrator handle colors fixed it for me.

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LucasDevCorrect answer
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October 15, 2025

Hey Anne, I totally get how frustrating that can be, especially when everything used to print perfectly before. It actually sounds like your color management settings in Illustrator or your printer driver might have gotten changed somewhere along the way.

Here’s what usually helps fix it:

  1. Reset Illustrator’s print settings:

    • Go to Edit > Preferences > General (Windows) or Illustrator > Preferences > General (Mac)

    • Click Reset Preferences.

    • Then restart Illustrator this brings everything back to the default color and print setup.

  2. Check your printer color settings:

    • In the Print dialog, under Color Management, set Color Handling to Let Illustrator Determine Colors.

    • Choose the correct Printer Profile (for Canon printers it’s often something like “Canon PRO-100 <PaperType>”)

    • Make sure Rendering Intent is set to Relative Colorimetric or Perceptual  these work best for clipart.

  3. Double-check the file itself:

    • Sometimes JPEGs come with an embedded color profile (like CMYK instead of RGB). Try opening it in Photoshop or Preview and converting it to RGB before printing.

After resetting everything, try printing a small sample again if it prints in the correct colors, you’ll know the issue was just the color management mismatch.

Let us know if this helps  I had a similar issue once, and resetting preferences + letting Illustrator handle colors fixed it for me.

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ann23076550nfpoAuthor
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October 16, 2025

Thanks very much for responding LucasDev ..... I have Reset Illustrator's print settings as suggested and the image is, whilst somewhat closer to showing all colours, it's not there yet in that the blue skies are pink in colour ... the rest of the image ie. the building and the trees are the colours they should be, just the blue skies are pink. There are tiny bits of blue coming through, but mainly pink skies as you can see from the attached image.   Under File/Document Color Mode/RGB is selected.  I've also gone into Edit/Color Settings, but I'm not sure what settings I should be selecting in here?  I'm attaching a picture of what the printer is printing off - it's not great for clarity as I'm just using photocopier paper at this stage, purely to save my good quality paper,  it's for the purpose of getting the right color result first.   Hope this helps to narrow down the solution.  Any further assistance would be greatly appreciated.  Anne

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