Colour Printing Problems - colour profile messed up ?

Combat squirrel · 23 May 2013 at 21:04

As title, I am having an infuriating problem, any prints I send from lightroom to my printer and almost totally yellow, no where near correct colours, same from photoshop, same if i select print on photo paper, if i select to print from MS Word to normal paper its totally fine, and the ink levels are fine.

Clearly its a printer profile issue, I have tried many, selected adobe rgb and so on, but I simply cannot make it work.

Any ideas on how to make it just print ?

Ksanti · 23 May 2013 at 21:35

Test it with:
Manual colour settings -> Colour matching > Perceptual (Monitor Colour Matched)

from the print dialogue
I've had a problem like this on the school computers where the printing profile is hideously miscalibrated and the default settings print yellow all the time.
(the default is Colour matching > Perceptual (Photographic))

Combat squirrel · 23 May 2013 at 21:56

Hey thanks for the reply, but I dont have those options

I can only choose a colour profile, which lists profiles (I chose my monitor colour profile getting hints from your suggestion), then in the printer options, I can choose manual colour adjustment is 'driver matching', 'ICM (windows image colour management)' and 'none'

Combat squirrel · 23 May 2013 at 22:01

Right I chose monitor profile, no adjust from that and perceptual

Printing on normal paper, it prints fine

changing ONLY the paper to glossy and the paper source tray means it goes mental again and bright yellow !?!?!?

EDIT: This is the issue:

Combat squirrel · 24 May 2013 at 00:08

Anyone? I really need this printer working

Combat squirrel · 25 May 2013 at 01:41

OK so,

I totally uninstalled the printer driver, also ccleanered the computer etc...

Reinstalled the driver, 'normal settings' print, prints fine.

AS SOON as I select any paper other than plain paper it is now printing nothing at all, no ink touches the paper, im abit perplexed, I suppose its better than a yellow mess.

Windows printer test page is also perfectly fine.

I assume its the bit of software in regards to what paper it is - how do I fix that ?

Anyone ?????????????????

Genoma · 25 May 2013 at 06:57

Print from a different app? May be worth telling people here what printer it is and drop both you printer manufacturer and adobe a support request?

Combat squirrel · 25 May 2013 at 13:16

Genoma said:
Print from a different app? May be worth telling people here what printer it is and drop both you printer manufacturer and adobe a support request?

Yeah will give it a go

The printer is a Canon ip4500, latest drivers, windows 8 64bit