Terry and mike thankyou for your input, i need it lol.

i have unistalled the drivers and everything else and re installed them i have also printed again on my canon mp610 using the reccomended set up and the picture printed fine.....took the same image on to my other work station did the same identical set up and the print has again the a bluish tint. bang my head against the wall now. am using windows 7 on the dud print could the operating system colour management system have anything to do with this as my other work station is windows xp and i have no problems at all. it seems that what ever i do in the photoshop set up and the canon printer on screen display has little effect on changing the print could this be an operating system issue as i have heard vista was a nightmare for printing ?

also when i do a patern check

the black looks grey the red looks light orange basically all the colours look way lighter to me

if any body could possibly print the image them selves who have a pixma 9000 then i could at least know if its the printer.
i have calibrated the moniter visually which agreed is nt the best but it ive been printing for years and have never seen anything like it in my life.
ive never really converted to cmyk but would this help as ive always just printed straight from RGB

ive just also discovered the canon easy photo print photoshop plugin.......what a difference that makes...jsut more in terms of colour changes that need to be made as you can print multiple copies of the same image at diffent contrast /brightness /colour values then just select the one you like the best make the adjustments in the printer osd then away you go .alot more processing but it has helped

i have just bought i new hp s2331a 23 lcd monitor, i installed the drivers for the monitor and i looked in the colour settings of photo shop and in the RGB working space profiles their is a HP s2331a working space profile........ is this the profile your talking about ? if so should i convert my image to this instead of adobe 1998 ? then set the print profile to the pixma 9000 mark 2 GL 1 ?

kind regards

DJ

Hey my friend am not getting shirty with you !!!!!!!!!! i really apprieciate your help seriously. sorry if ive come accross this way but i have nt intended to. i always say a senternce can be read a million ways..
but i genuinely do thankyou for you advice......

here is a step by step insight into what i have been doing

1... open image in photoshop, the image is untagged so i convert the image in to adobe rgb, perceptual, use black point compensation checked and dither checked.

2...file=edit Print

3...print diolage displays

colour management=document (adobe 1998)

colour handling=photoshop manages colours

printer profile=canon pro9000 mark2<GL><pp>photopaper plus glossy

rendering intent=perceptual(black point compensater unchecked (as i did this when i converted the untagged image to adobe RGB, i have also checked it with the same results)

Then page set up, then the canon OSD displays
navigate to the main tab

media type=photo paper plus glossy 2
print quality =standard
colour intensity=manuel
click set
navigate to matching tab=select none
paper size A4
borderless printing enabled
navigate from the canon OSD back to photoshops print preview screen
click done
save image again
then file print
click print
Actually print this time

the image is a scene of a bathroom basin with tumbled marble tiles, behaind the basin is a brown tile splash back.
 the pocelian is white the tiles look desaturated (darker) the brown splash looks black instead of brown and the specular high light looks blue which is confusing as the basin looks white so why cant the specular highlight not look white when it does on screen..
very confusing..

again thankyou for your input

if GL1 is nt a canon printer profile i dont know what is ? i use that profile because anm using canons own semi glossy paper. this printing is very complicated art, you would have thought by 2010 this could have all be simplified by all manufacturers but again this would be to easy .

thanks for your help

Hi all thankyou for reading my thread

i have just recently bought a new canon pixma 9000 mk2 printer.
i am having some problems getting the right colours especialy browns.
i do interior visualisation using 3dsmax and mental ray.
and am currently using photoshop to post production my images.

i render all my images untagged, in tiff format. A3 size 150 dpi.
my monitor is calibrated its a new hp s2331a 23 inch lcd.

i have used cannon printers for some time now.

iwhen i go to print i convert the image to the s rgb profile then enter the printer setting disable color management by selecting none.
i then select the canon paper i am using which is semi gloss pro 2

i go back to the photshop print preview and allow photoshop to mange colours and then select the printers profile which is GL1

i then print.......this usually works fine on my old mp610 with no probs maybe sometimes i have to kill the megenta because of canon red syndrome.
but apart from that the prints are presentable.

this time all colours seem to have a blue cool tint running through them.......at the moment i am rendering some brown tiles and the specular high light looks bluish and the brown is actually more black..... i recently used some cheaper ink cartridges and i think this is when the problems started....so i reverted back to canon only cartridges.......

my btheoryn is thatb the cheaper ink has a higher viscosity then the normal canon inks so is thicker and harder to thin.

is their a way if this is the case to flush all the pipes through with cleaning fluid if the is such a thing ?

or am i just a complete retard and have been printing petty good prints with other canon printers just by pure luck.....

all help gratefully recieved as my boss is not happy that his investment does nt work properly because of using cheaper cartridges.

thanks guys