Colors are off when PS CS2021 manages colors while printing

You should always test output using good color reference images designed for that task. The color reference images RGB values are such 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

Seeing the output would help figure out what's 'off' here. 

Hi

thanks for the nudge Dave

tribuut

SO - somethings changed? and that’s broken printing for you. Have a think about what that might be?

I've never had any problems with 'Photoshop Manages Color' as long as the right (good quality/accurate) icc paper profile is chosen and the right media type is selected in the driver options.

I guess you were successfully using an icc paper profile installed by Canon?

Generally with 'Photoshop Manages Color', Photoshop switches off driver colour management for you.

[i.e. greys the options out]

Using 'Photoshop Manages Color' gives you the opportunity to select an icc paper profile of choice [and the rendering intent]. That's it's advantage, of course that means you can also print accurately on third party papers as long as you have a good profile, etc. 

Using 'Printer Manages Color' means that the printer software automatically selects a paper profile based on the media setting you use in the driver. [we don't know the rendering intent, its likely to be perceptual but I wouldn't bet on that]

IF you like the result from 'Printer Manages Color' you could just use 'Printer Manages Color' and have nice prints.

However there seems to be a reason why you'd like to use 'Photoshop Manages Color', perhaps 'Printer Manages Color' is OK but not JUST right.

IF you know exactly what icc paper profile the 'Printer Manages Color'  process is automatically selecting, then selecting that in 'Photoshop Manages Color' and selecting the right media settings should mean the prints match. 

If they don't match then carefully go through your settings and try both relative (with and without BPC) and perpetual in the 'Photoshop Manages Color' dialog.

Please let us know how you get on.

I hope this helps
neil barstow, colourmanagement net :: adobe forum volunteer
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When you use Photoshop to manage colours have you also made sure that all colour management in the print diver is turned off. If not, the colour trnsforms could be happening twice resulting in bad colour.

Dave