Mike Chaney's Tech Corner

I am not sure if this question belongs here or in Qimage.  I am trying to profile a Canon MP990.  I have been using Qimage and Prism for some time, so have developed successful profiles.  However, I have followed the instruction carefully, but cannot get a print that is not too dark to profile.  In Qimage, I turn off everything, i.e. selecting no profile.  I also turn off everything in the printer preferences selections for the printer, making sure that the color and contrast settings are all at the center.  Am I missing something?  Would love to get this printer profiled.

Al,
I assume you are talking about making a print of the target.tif file to use in the scanner.
The first thing is to open Qimage and Click FILE, RECALL, and click the "J" button for JOB.
Now, depending on the sort direction, the first or last item says, Q-printer target setup job.
Click that and OPEN.  Now Qimage is all set to print your target file, except for the driver.
The driver must reflect the paper type, print quality, and most important, set to NO COLOR MANAGEMENT, or NONE.

This is the normal, correct way to set up to make the target print, but since the MP990 is a low end All-in-One, printer, scanner, copier, fax machine type, you might have to improvise, by trial and error settings in the driver.

Try the ICM setting instead of No Color Management, or any other optional color setting, rescanning with the Profile Prism provided target of course, and create a profile. Profile Prism will tell you when it reads the scan if the print is acceptable. Keep trying until you hit a combination of driver setting and paper selection that is acceptable.

Fred

Thanks for the response.  Yes, I am trying to print the target.  I have tried to make the test print with a basic, nothing on, printer setting.  Can see now, that that is not going to work.  The target looks good in Qimage, so I know that the problem is in the printer setting.  Will have to try to find something that works.