Print to file. Set 300PPI or 600PPI depending on the size of the print and the paper quality you want and the image data you have. Use the TIFF format. Use the Printer ICC + Print sharpening route. Select the printer profile they delivered if it is an RGB-device profile and select the default print sharpening for sizes up to A3, if above lower the print sharpening. In case the profile they delivered is a CMYK-device one and used with their RIP then you can not use the printer profile, in that case select "Let printer driver control CM". The data you produce will have the original color space assigned again. The shop will do the actual printer CM then.

met vriendelijke groeten, Ernst Dinkla

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For Print to File you do not need the Canon printer driver. The problem I see is whether they use a RIP or the normal Canon driver and in the last case whether they have CM done by the printer driver or in the application they print from. I doubt that they are not using any CM. In case they select an ICC printer profile that is different from the one you use or if they use the driver CM (based on LUT tables usually) then you get double profiling, Same if they use a RIP. I think it is wiser to use Print to File and keep the image's assigned profile in the produced Qimage data, sRGB of AdobeRGB most likely. So set Let Printer driver control CM is the choice in Qimage and the Printshop will have to do the CM. If they are lousy on calibrating, profiling, media preset selection on the iPF9000 you will not get that corrected at your side anyway. I think they will do a good job though. Het is niet echt een derde wereld land, om het een beetje politiek correct uit te drukken.


met vriendelijke groeten, Ernst Dinkla

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