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RobboDesk
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January 23, 2020
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Printing to an inkjet printer

  • January 23, 2020
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Please advise on the right steps and settings for printing from InDesign to an inkjet printer. I'm using a Mac, the printer is a Canon Pro-1000, I have a custom ICC profile. My working RGB is Adobe. 

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rob day
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rob dayCommunity Expert
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January 23, 2020

The Canon Pro-1000 installs its media .icc profiles as a bundle. The path sould be something like /Library/Printers/Canon/BJPrinter/Resources/ICCProfiles/PRO1000series.canonicc.

 

If you have a custom profile you want to add to the printer media list, you can control click the PRO1000series.canonic bundle to see its contents and add other .icc RGB output profiles:

 

 

Once you have added your profile to the bundle it should show up in the dropdown under InDesign>Print>Printer...>Layout>Printer Settings.

 

I don’t have a Canon printer installed, but it works as I’ve described above for my Epson:

Here is the list of my Epson output profiles:

 

 

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    RobboDeskAuthor
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    January 23, 2020

    Thank you. How do I get file from InDesign to printer. Is it like you describe here? https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/how-to-color-manage-a-file-that-is-going-to-an-quot-rgb-printer-quot/m-p/10146416#M118690

    mfiorentino
    mfiorentino
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    August 26, 2020

    Do you mean print direct from InDesign to Inkjet, not using PDF & Acrobat?


    I am curious regarding this since I also use the Canon Pro-1000 but cannot seem to get consistent colours when printing directly from Indesign. I am only able to get correct colours when using Canon's own "Professional Print & Layout" application. But that is cumbersome when dealing with Indesign since it only accepts TIFFs. I suspect that I need somehow to disable colour correction in macOS's print dialog, but I'm not sure where and how to do this...

     

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