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March 16, 2025
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Magenta cast on prints

  • March 16, 2025
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Printing from Lightroom Classic on a Macbook, to a Canon ImagePrograf Pro-300.  I'm using the Print tab, and at the very bottom, there is a section called Color Management.  If, in Color Management,  I select a paper profile I downloaded from the paper manufacturer, I get a magenta cast.  However, if I set Color Management  to "managed by printer," there is no magenta cast.  This is a sudden change.  I've printed using Lightroom to manage colors many times before.  From what I have read, this behavior means I'm I am somehow managing color from more than one source, but I cannot figure out what the sources could be.  

 

The only thing I have found that is different is that, when I choose to let the printer manage color, in the printer dialog under "color," the box for Canon color is checked, but if I choose a paper profile, and look at the print dialog under "color," then ColorSync is checked (see attached screen shots).

 

I admit I was poking around in the ColorSync application earlier today, trying to learn what it is/does, so I could have changed something.  I'm way out of my depth here.  Is there some way the operating system on my Macbook is managing color and interfering with Lightroom managing it?

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ColinmlAuthor
Participating Frequently
March 16, 2025

So, I disabled the Lightroom plug-in for Canon Professional Print and Layout (a software program that I installed when I bought the printer, but have never been able to get it to work right), and now my prints do not have a magenta cast when I choose a paper profile in Lightroom...so I guess I fixed it? 

Claire H.
Community Manager
Community Manager
March 20, 2025

Hi @Colinml, Great to hear that you figured it out! If you have any other questions or need further assistance, we're here to help. Thanks! ^CH