Using Canon printers in Lightroom and Photoshop - Color management
A lot of people are confused when it comes to printing photos from Photoshop. The color management settings are hard to understand; which should be enabled and which should be disabled? This article uses Lightroom as the reference, but the settings can also be used in Photoshop. I will be using a Canon IP5300 printer for the screenshots.
First, select the photo you want to print in Lightroom and go to the printing mode:
Scroll down to color management and at the profile select the profile for your paper. In my case, I'll be printing PR101 at quality setting 1, so I'm using Canon Ip5300 PR1. Click print settings:
Select Maximize size and click Page Setup. (I'm using a Dutch version of Windows).
Click the paper size and select A4, then click properties.
Select your medium, in my case, I'm using PR101 A4 paper. So I have to select Photo Paper Pro
At the quality page click custom and set the quality setting to 1.
Click OK and and then click on custom at color/intensity. Click setup and None at color management. Click ok.
Go to second tab and enable the borderless option.
By doing this, you have disabled the color management at the printer. Lightroom will do all the color management.