Difference in color between soft proof and print preview.

[UrionF]

 I am new to Lightroom and I am having trouble with the color I am getting with my prints. I know that to get the most accurate colors you should calibrate your monitor and mine is certainly not calibrated, but what I am having a problem with is that before I print a photo from Lightroom I see a preview of what it will look like and the colors are different from the ones I see when I soft proof in Lightroom. In this particular case I am using Moab Juniper Baryta paper in a Canon Pro-1000. I am using the color profile for the paper and the printer settings recommended by the maufacturer. In Lightroom the image looks fine, with the paper profile added, but when I go to print it the preview shows a strong green cast to the photo and when it prints out it has that strong green cast. As it is I am having to look at the preview then go back and change the colors then try to print again to check the preview and so on back and forth. Is there something I'm doing wrong? When I used the Canon paper the printer came with this didn't happen.

Any help would be great. Thank you.

[Bob_Hallam]

Which version ov LR and which OS?

[UrionF]

Windows 11 and newest version of Lightroom Classic.

[Bob_Hallam]

You will not get accecptable prints from Lightroom Classic. This is a Lightroom Classic issue, not a color management issu.  Try Adobe Elements or any other Adobe Software.  

[UrionF]

My bad. I wasn't quite sure where to post the question.

[Bob_Hallam]

You're posting in the correct forum.  Give another software a try for printing and the results will be what you expect LR Classic is just not able to print correctly in a Color managed environment.  

[UrionF]

Ah, ok. Thank you for your help then. I appreciate it.

[TheDigitalDog · Accepted solution]

IF everything is setup properly with LR, it will not only print fine, it will exactly match the same outout as Photoshop or any other color managed application. It is likely an issue in setting up the print templete which stores every possible setting for printing, including the driver settings. Start from scratch, make a new user defined print template and ensure every setting is correct for the driver and color management there. Save and try using a color reference image for testing like this:
http://www.digitaldog.net/files/2014PrinterTestFileFlat.tif.zip

[Bob_Hallam]

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You get acceptable prints from Elements but not Lightroom Classic so this is a Lightroom Classic issue, not a color management issue (per se)! 

So you were getting good prints out of Lightroom Classic and now you're not? You might need to start from scratch, making a new, custom print template and setting everything, and I mean everything for color management in LR plus the print driver, into this template. The template stores every setting, even in the driver. They can get corrupted or just setup incorrectly and thus stick with the incorrect settings. Hence, start from scratch. 

You should always test output using good color reference images designed for that task. The color reference images RGB values are such that they are set for output and are editing and display agnostic. Test the output this way and examine for the same color issues so we know it's not your image-specific issues causing the problems:
http://www.digitaldog.net/files/2014PrinterTestFileFlat.tif.zip
This and other such documents can also be downloaded at http://www.digitaldog.net/

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[Bob_Hallam]

You get acceptable prints from Elements but not Lightroom Classic so this is a Lightroom Classic issue, not a color management issue (per se)! 

So you were getting good prints out of Lightroom Classic and now you're not? You might need to start from scratch, making a new, custom print template and setting everything, and I mean everything for color management in LR plus the print driver, into this template. The template stores every setting, even in the driver. They can get corrupted or just setup incorrectly and thus stick with the incorrect settings. Hence, start from scratch. 

You should always test output using good color reference images designed for that task. The color reference images RGB values are such that they are set for output and are editing and display agnostic. Test the output this way and examine for the same color issues so we know it's not your image-specific issues causing the problems:
http://www.digitaldog.net/files/2014PrinterTestFileFlat.tif.zip
This and other such documents can also be downloaded at http://www.digitaldog.net/