Can't print using ICC profile sRGB IEC61966-2.1

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So this took me hours to figure out after getting a new computer/new printer. But though the profile, sRGB IEC61966-2.1, doesn't show up for a the printer profile it does show up in a different area. So incase you ever need to figure this out again later. Instead of having photoshop manage the colors, select printer manages colors. Then select hard proofing. Under proof setup, click on custom setup, and there, low and behold, you can select sRGB IEC61966-2.1 which is what my document in PS was set to as well and it then printed perfectly.

A lot of people are suggesting to use the printer profile, but I notice that the Canon iX6850 appears to be a general office printer. Does Canon actually offer or install a custom profile for that printer? Because most companies never offer a custom profile for home/office printers, it’s more of a thing for pro photo printers.

If Canon does not offer a downloadable or automatically installed custom profile, then probably the right way to print to the iX6850 from Photoshop would be to set Color Handling to Printer Manages Colors, and let the Canon printer driver convert internally from whatever color space the document is in. In this workflow, it’s very important to set the media type and other settings correctly in the Canon printer driver settings, because that will tell the Canon printer driver how to convert it properly.

This very common general purpose workflow typically assumes sRGB anyway, so it might work best if the document itself is in sRGB.

Hi

I don't see the colour space profiles (sRGB IEC 61966-2.1 or  Adobe RGB1998 or ProPhoto RGB)  in my Printer Profile list either. Nor should I as none of those are output device profiles. They are intended to describe the colour space of your document.

Go to Canon's website if you use Canon paper, or to the paper manufacturer's website of the paper you do use, and download the correct profile for your printer and paper combination.

With your document having an embeded colour space, a monitor profile that describes your monitor and the correct printer profile for your printer, ink and paper combination then colour matching should not be an issue within the limits of printable colours.

Dave

Is sRGB available as a working space under Color Settings?

In the Photoshop print dialog there's a "Print Profile" rolldown. Here you can pick any profile installed on your system. If whatever profile you want doesn't appear there, it's not correctly installed on your system. In other words, it's not in the system folder it should be.

As a Windows user I don't know the correct path in MacOS, but if you locate your other profiles and manually copy your profile in there it should work.

And again, the correct way to do this is to first make sure your file has an embedded document profile, and then pick the correct print profile for the paper. Photoshop color management then converts on the fly, from the document profile into the print profile.

To avoid double profiling, you need to go into the printer driver and turn off any printer color management. You also need to pick the right paper type here. This controls total ink.

If your prints still don't come out as expected, your monitor calibration is off. A common issue is that the monitor is too bright, causing the prints to come out too dark and muddy. Calibrate the monitor to match paper white.

You don't "try" different profiles. You use the correct one. The correct profile in this case is the Canon profile that corresponds to the paper you're printing on. These profiles are installed along with the printer driver.

sRGB is emphatically not a print profile. It's a document profile. Those are two very different things, serving different purposes.

I am deliberately not answering your question, because it's the wrong question. It may accidentally work, within limitations, under some special circumstances, but it's guaranteed to fail sooner or later. There are procedures for this, procedures that work, and work consistently.

If you post a screenshot of the Photoshop print dialog we can be more specific.  

You need to use the right profile for the new printer.