How to turn off color management in OSX 10.9

[Twald]

I recently got my hands on a ColorMunki Photo, which I would like to use for profiling papers for my Pro9500 with Precision Colors Ink. I am having trouble getting a profile on Illford paper that works better than the Canon Semigloss SG1. It seems the printer will not do smooth gradients with my profiles.

Going over the process of creating the profile, I was wondering if I correctly turned off color management when printing the color patches. I do not have a "Turn off Color Management" option in the driver dialog. The closest thing to turning it off is a "Canon Color Matching" option, and then leaving all the sliders at zero.

I read somewhere that the correct way is to use an RGB profile when printing the color patches. Is this correct?

Could anyone give me some feedback on this?


Thanks!

 

[pharmacist]

This something that have been talked over and over again: You have to blame Apple, not having a special turn off color management in their printer drivers. Apple does not want you to disable color managment. I think X-rite has some workaround tips about this problem. Have a search on their website.

 

[Twald]

The only advise the X-rite website gives me is to consult the printer documentation.
Is there anyone here who successfully uses all three of 1) OSX Mavericks, 2)Canon Pixma Pro 9500 printer (or any other canon printer), and 3) X-rite ColorMunki Photo? I would like to know a rout that works without having to experiment some more, as I have already wasted 7 letter-size sheets of paper and ink and accomplished nothing.

I did find some advise on using colorsync and then selecting a Generic RGB profile. Does this even make sense?

Like I said, I used the "Canon Color Matching" option, thinking that will turn off color management. The profile that it makes is quite bad. I get odd colors and stair-step gradients. The Canon profiles work much better for me.

 

[The Hat]

I wish I could help you here with your problem, because I do use a Mac and have a Pro 9500 but every Canon printer works pretty much the same regardless of which model it is.

On occasions I do like to switch off colour management to see what difference it make to my output but as I only use Photoshop I can’t help you with your ColorMunki.

On my Mac 10.4 and on most of the later O/S’s you don’t get an actual tick box to turn off the colour management like you do in Win O/S, it works automatically, I have used Mac’s since O/S 8.01 and printing from a Mac can be a proper bitch.

So If I choose to allow Photoshop to handle all the colour output instead of the printer then the Mac O/S will automatically disable the colour print driver which will allow the App itself to control everything from within.

My advice to you would be if you’re having trouble colour printing from your Mac then load boot camp and install Win 7 and save yourself endless hours of trouble, till you have the time to figure it all out..

 

[Thombar]

I wish I could help you here with your problem, because I do use a Mac and have a Pro 9500 but every Canon printer works pretty much the same regardless of which model it is.

On occasions I do like to switch off colour management to see what difference it make to my output but as I only use Photoshop I can’t help you with your ColorMunki.

On my Mac 10.4 and on most of the later O/S’s you don’t get an actual tick box to turn off the colour management like you do in Win O/S, it works automatically, I have used Mac’s since O/S 8.01 and printing from a Mac can be a proper bitch.

So If I choose to allow Photoshop to handle all the colour output instead of the printer then the Mac O/S will automatically disable the colour print driver which will allow the App itself to control everything from within.

My advice to you would be if you’re having trouble colour printing from your Mac then load boot camp and install Win 7 and save yourself endless hours of trouble, till you have the time to figure it all out..

I have Parallels for my Mac with Windows 7 install. Do I have to reinstall the software for my Pro 100?

 

[pharmacist]

HI Thombar,

Yes you need to do so. You could run Windows 7 with Virtual Box as well and install the Pro 100 drivers in a virtual Windows 7 machine. This way You can stay within OS X, but running Windows 7 in a virtual machine.

 

[Thombar]

HI Thombar,

Yes you need to do so. You could run Windows 7 with Virtual Box as well and install the Pro 100 drivers in a virtual Windows 7 machine. This way You can stay within OS X, but running Windows 7 in a virtual machine.

Okay, that was the easy part. Do I go into my Parallels Windows 7 then to Canon and download the drivers for the printer? I'm new to all this so please use little works. Thanks.

 

[The Hat]

When you’re in Virtual Win 7 turn on the printer and if the O/S still can’t see it then just click add, then install the printer driver from the CD or download it whichever you’re comfortable with..

 

[Thombar]

When you’re in Virtual Win 7 turn on the printer and if the O/S still can’t see it then just click add, then install the printer driver from the CD or download it whichever you’re comfortable with..

Thanks a lot for the help!

 

[lolopr1]

I recently got my hands on a ColorMunki Photo, which I would like to use for profiling papers for my Pro9500 with Precision Colors Ink. I am having trouble getting a profile on Illford paper that works better than the Canon Semigloss SG1. It seems the printer will not do smooth gradients with my profiles.

Going over the process of creating the profile, I was wondering if I correctly turned off color management when printing the color patches. I do not have a "Turn off Color Management" option in the driver dialog. The closest thing to turning it off is a "Canon Color Matching" option, and then leaving all the sliders at zero.

I read somewhere that the correct way is to use an RGB profile when printing the color patches. Is this correct?

Could anyone give me some feedback on this?


Thanks!

You can download the app that gives you the option of no color management direct from adobe and print your targets directly from the app. http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/no-color-management-option-missing.html