Place a tick mark next to any that you want to show up in Lightroom. This will bring up a box listing all of the profiles available to the OS. Rather, you have to pick "other" under print management, profile.
#WHAT IS SOFT PROOFING LIGHTROOM 5 PRO#
If Canon provided profiles for your printer (it's possible they included profiles for one of the pro dye-based printers), these will be installed in the operating system when you installed the printer but will not show up in Lightroom. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a good generic profile, as papers can vary dramatically in how prints look. It is a generic profile they recommend when you are not using a paper for which they have provided a profile. Canon's labeling of profiles is obscure, but again as far as I know, the IJ 2005 is not a generic profile for non pro printers. For this reason, I suspect that there is something else wrong in your workflow.Īs far as I know, Canon provides profiles only for the "pro" (dedicated) printers, and that has also been true of all of the other paper companies whose papers I have used. It generally does not suggest a change in overall color balance. In my experience, softproofing primarily shows two things: tonality differences (how much contrast is lost, how blacks the blacks are, etc.) and out-of-gamut colors. I have printed photos with a total of 4 different models of Canon printers-one multi-function (MP970) and three dedicated photo printers-and I have softproofed routinely with two or three of them. Unfortunately, that leaves a number of others. Not knowing what you know, I'm not sure what to include, so just ignore if I write things you already know.Īssuming that the calibration worked, you have removed two sources of a problem: lack of calibration and non-standard inks. The printer does not manage colour and in Lightroom Print the Adjustments for Brightness and Contrast are set to zero.Īre there other settings I should be investigating?
#WHAT IS SOFT PROOFING LIGHTROOM 5 PLUS#
The paper is set for Photo Paper Plus Glossy II which I have been using. The ICC profile is Canon IJ Profile 2005 which appears to be a generic Canon profile for their non-Pro printers. As far as I can tell the printer has always performed well in terms of no clogging or excessive cleaning routines. My printer is a Canon iP4700 (about 9 years old) and I have always printed on Canon paper using Canon inks. In fact, the actual print is closer to the non soft proofing image than the soft proofing one. Is this to be expected?Ĭomparing the actual print to the soft proofing image, I find the soft proof is bluer and the colours more saturated than the actual print. The difference between them is far more than I was anticipating. Here are screenshots of an image without and with the Soft Proofing box ticked. The next step was to investigate the soft proofing facility in Lightroom. (It is a 10-12 year old HP monitor but it is in good condition with no dead pixels and a contrast ratio of 10,000:1) As first step towards better consistency of colours displayed and printed I have recalibrated my monitor using a ColorMunki.
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