Why does Photoshop print only in black and white on my Canon Pixma Pro9000 Mark II, while Aperture prints in color?
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My Canon Pixma Pro9000 Mark II was printing excellent color photos from Photoshop on my Mac, but suddenly every print from Photoshop comes out in black and white. Canon support had me print a test page, and that printed in color correctly. If I print from Apple's Aperture, the printer also produces normal color prints, so the printer itself seems fine.
The problem appears to happen only when printing from Photoshop (even across two Photoshop versions). What Photoshop or printer driver setting could cause color images to print as black and white, and what should I check first?
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When Using the Canon Pro 10 printer, I was having issues where my prints where coming out slightly red on the photos and I was able to determine that the driver had a color matching set to Driver Matching and when I changed it to none, and set Lightroom to load the correct color settings for the paper type and quality, everything came out correct again.
I learned this from the tutorial posted by Adobe for controlling your printer and it's settings from Lightroom. The tutorial is on YouTube.
I am running Windows 10 with Lightroom but I suspect from the tutorial that Mac and Windows isn't all that much different in controlling the printer driver and setting up Lightroom.
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Because the printer makes color test prints and Aperture prints in color, the issue is most likely not the printer hardware but the Photoshop print/driver color settings.
A common cause is a mismatch in color management between Photoshop and the Canon driver. Check the printer driver’s color options and make sure color matching is not set in a way that overrides Photoshop. One reported fix on Canon printers was changing the driver’s color matching from something like Driver Matching to none, then letting the photo app handle the correct color settings for the paper and quality.
In short: review Photoshop’s print dialog and the Canon driver settings, especially any grayscale/black-and-white mode or color matching option. If Aperture works, compare its print settings to Photoshop’s and match the driver configuration.
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