I just printed a low contrast B&W and I am ok with the results but the print is much contrasty and a little darker than whats on screen.

I have been working more and more with the printer and decided to print a shot I have on the wall already from the Epson.  Its a shot from my time in London England in one of the train stations.

I printed it using the standard workflow I would have with the Epson.  I printed it on Canon Luster and Epson Luster...

THEY ARE IDENTICAL!

Why would these print perfectly but my Grad Cap and Gown images be such a problem?

Any Ideas?  I was getting to the point of returning the printer until now!

No problem with the Epson, if I ever had to do anything in QU it would be increase brightness a tad.

The profile is the profile that comes with the Canon Driver for the Canon Photo Paper Pro Luster.

I have never seen any documentation to adjust settings in the driver for that paper.  Ill see what I can find.

So far the only want I can get this printing close enough to send prints to clients is by using the Studio Pro Pro via Photoshop.  But I had to print out test patterns for colour and brightness and contrast.

ITs not perfect, its no looking as good as the epson but I am comfortable with sending product to clients.  But to use that efficently I will have to go into Lightroom, create custom print layouts for the products, render to jpegs and then print!!!  f***!

I just want Qimage working!!

I am sure I went though the same s*** with the epson when I first got it.  But it wasnt during the busiest time of the season!

The closest I am getting is when I use Studio Print Pro in photoshop but even its not right.

I must be missing something in the driver.

Yes my monitors are calibrated.

Thanks Mike. That helped huge with colour.  But still printing very dark, still not looking like whats on the screen!

other than adjusting brightness in Qimage do you have any other ideas?

With the Epson it just worked!

Thanks

I have been using Qimage for years and loved it.  I just upgraded to Ultimate and I just got the Canon Pixma Pro-1 printer after my Epson R1900 died on the weekend.

Following the same workflow I have for years with my Epson to get proper prints is not working AT ALL with the Pro-1.

I have the icc profile for the paper and even checked the driver to see if I need to turn off any kind of colour correction and I don't see anything.

Using Windowns 10, jpegs were edited and rendered in Lightroom CC.

What am I missing?  I am in the middle of printing a huge number of prints so I need a fast fix!  Any help would be great.

Thanks

Kelly