Printing with Impression Close to That on Monitor

Important

• To print with an impression close to that on the monitor, we recommend that you set the monitor and ambient light as follows.

  • Monitor

    • Color temperature: D50 (5000 K)
    • Luminance: 120 cd/m2
    • Gamma: 2.2

  • Ambient light

    • D50 fluorescent lamps designed for color evaluation (color temperature: 5000 K, high color rendering properties)
    • Brightness when viewing printed materials: 500 lx ± 125 lx

1. Start Professional Print & Layout, and then drag and drop the images you want to print to the Preview area.

   Note

   • For how to start Professional Print & Layout, see Starting Professional Print & Layout.

2. In Color Management on the General Settings tab, set Color Mode to Use ICC Profile or Driver Matching.

   

   Select a color mode according to the color space of the image to be printed. Canon recommends the following combinations.

   Color Space	Color Mode
   Adobe RGB	Use ICC Profile (Rendering Intent: Perceptual)
   sRGB	Driver Matching (Rendering Intent: Perceptual (Photo))

   Important

   • If you select Use ICC Profile, set Rendering Intent to Perceptual.
   • If you select Driver Matching, set Rendering Intent to Perceptual (Photo).

3. Click Print.

   The Print dialog box appears.

4. Click OK.

Note

• You can also change the color balance, brightness, and contrast of the images. For details, see Adjusting Color Balance, Brightness, and Contrast.
• For Color Management on the General Settings tab, see General Settings Tab (Color Management).