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Can't print correct colours from Illustrator (and photoshop)

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July 2, 2021
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The colour output on my printer from Illustrator and photoshop is just plain wrong. I seem to have read everything on line and tried changing every setting but none of the changes have an effect. If I output a file as a jpeg and print from preview the colours are correct.

I am printing from a macbook pro (Catalina) to a canon ip8750

I am working entirely in CMYK without any imported images

My colours are synced through bridge to Europe General purpose 3 and have all the standard Working Space and Color Management Policies settings.

On the printer I've tried Colorsync and Canon Color Match which differ slightly but both are similarly wrong.

I would try "let ps printer manage colors" but that option is greyed out.

Specifically Cyan appears pale blue, Magenta slightly purple, yellow is pale. An emerald green appears pistacchio and rust appears purple.

There is probably something fundamental I'm missing but I can't find anything so any help would be gratefully received.

Thanks

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Monika Gause

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That Canon printer is a photo printer. It probably doesn't make a lot of sense to work in CMYK if you want to just print it on that printer. Photo printers are optimized for RGB input.

If the final goal is to print offset, then of course you'd rather work in CMYK.

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neilh87817824Author

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Hi Monika

Yes I'm working for print but use the printer for photographs as well. But given that all injets are CMYK and in my case CMYK+ this shouldn't be an issue, and given that jpegs are printing out the right colour the Adobe suite should be able to manage this. I'm sure I'm not the only one working in CMYK who needs to print on an inkjet printer. The issue is clearly with the Adobe settings and I would really like some constructive help on this.

Thanks

Neil

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Probably you trust the guys from Stackexchange more than me?

https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/99829/why-would-home-printers-work-better-with-an-rgb-image

Anyway: is the printer calibrated?

Can you show photos of the print and tell us the exact CMYK values they are supposed to represent? Not that this would be accurate at all, because of the several steps in between and possible differences in monitor calibration ....

If you compare printed samples of the colors (from a CMYK swatches book such as the TRUMATCH) to the printout: do they match?

Abambo

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What about saving the Photoshop file as a JPEG or a TIFF and using a macOS app to print for a test?

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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neilh87817824Author

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Hi Abambo

As I mentioned in the post, I have tried converting to jpeg and printing from preview which does deliver the correct colours. As the problem is the same with Photoshop this indicates that the issue is with the Adobe settings.

Thanks

Neil

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