I made dozens of double prints of the same images, using both Pro Mode and the appropriate ICC profile with my experienced guess about the correct rendering intent for the image (perceptual or relative colorimetric). Print Studio Pro’s Pro Mode color management analyzes your images for printing to the Pro-10. Print Studio Pro will analyze your image specifically for printing to the target Canon printer and paper, then map the color gamut for optimum balance of brightness, saturation, and color fidelity. You are still going to have to worry about white balance and calibrating your display but using Pro Mode in Print Studio Pro, you can forget about ICC profiles and “rendering intents”, at least a lot of the time. Experienced photographers know that maintaining color fidelity-from reality to camera to computer to paper-is a major technical problem. It is full-featured and well-designed.Įspecially if you are using Canon’s own excellent papers, Print Studio Pro has one big advantage: Pro Mode color management. Print Studio Pro lets me do everything in one place. Some of those decisions (for example, paper size) have to be made twice. When printing from Lightroom, I have to make some decisions (for example, ICC profile, resolution, watermark, print border) inside Lightroom, and some decisions in the standard printer dialog. Canon’s Print Studio Pro installs as a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom (sorry, die-hard Aperture users), and works with all three of Canon’s current Pro-line printers: the Pro-1, Pro-10 and Pro-100. Soft proofing inside Lightroom and Aperture also worked as usual.īut the Pro-10 has introduced me to a new and possibly better way to print. Printing from these apps to the Pro-10 presented no new challenges, once I installed the right ICC profiles for the papers I use. Pixma Pro9000 Mark II from either Lightroom or Aperture. Printing with the Pixma Pro-10įor the last couple of years, I’ve been printing to a Canon

Canon should do a better job helping users with the installation of the software by making it clear what items are needed. The good news is that, if you’re lucky, the setup will only have to be done once.

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