How do I disable printer color management for Lightroom printing on a Canon Pixma Pro-100S?
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I'm printing black-and-white photos from Lightroom to a Canon Pixma Pro-100S on macOS and seeing color casts that vary by paper. In Lightroom's Print Job panel I'm using a custom printer/paper profile, and Lightroom shows this warning: "When selecting a custom profile, remember to turn off color management in the Print dialogue. Black Point Compensation will be used for this print." What does Lightroom mean by the Print dialog, how do I turn off the printer's own color management, and can I control Black Point Compensation?
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From the Lightroom PRINT Module, click the Printer TAB at the bottom and NOT the Print TAB
This will then popup the Print Dialogue Box.
The 3rd drop down menu will give you access to color matching.
Here you can choose between Canon Color Matching or Colorsync. Color matching is auto selected by default as the standard color management.
Choosing Colorsync will open a further drop down menu where you can choose the custom profile that matches your printer, Paper and Media type
Regarding the Black Point Compensation which maps the Black Point of the original image with that of the printer profile so that dark shadows do not fill in, is by default turned ON and cannot be selected for alteration via Lightroom.
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In Lightroom when you are preparing your print job, you will be promoted with either;
“Remember to turn on color management” when selecting Managed By Printer or
“Remember to turn off color Management” when selecting a custom profile based on your printer.
Unfortunately, there is no option to turn ON or OFF the color Management when using a Canon printer on a Mac in the printer dialogue box and these messages can be, somewhat confusing. It could be something to do with the option being available on Windows and I believe was also available pre OS X7. There maybe someway of turning it off completely via the device drivers, but that is for a techie to look at.
By default, Apple prefers its users to use auto color management option offered by the printer to calibrate with the screen profile being used, better known as Color Matching.
However, if you decide to choose color sync, then you have the option of selecting your custom profiles and as a result, rendering the printer color matching options, as obsolete and discarded.
I consider these 2 options as On and Off.
Please Note, Black Point Compensation can be ticked off in Photoshop
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Lightroom means the macOS printer dialog opened from the Printer button in Lightroom’s Print module, not the normal Print button.
In that printer dialog, open the color options (often under the 3rd dropdown menu, such as Color Matching). By default, Canon color matching/printer color management is usually enabled. If Lightroom is managing color with a custom ICC profile, you should disable the printer’s own color management there so you don’t get double color management.
On macOS, that typically means going to Color Matching and switching away from Canon Color Matching. The available options may include ColorSync and profile-related settings, depending on the driver.
As for Black Point Compensation: Lightroom uses it automatically for these prints, and according to the community answer it is on by default and cannot be changed from Lightroom.
So, in short:
- Open the printer dialog via Printer in Lightroom’s Print module
- Go to the color matching/color management section
- Turn off the printer’s color management when using a custom profile in Lightroom
- Black Point Compensation is automatic in Lightroom and not user-adjustable there
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