Hot to create color profile if I can't disable color management?

Hello Guntis,

As you have seen with the Canon iP driver, there is no function to disable color management, you either select ColorSync or Canon Color Matching.

When you select ColorSync, your output will use the default profiles assigned to the paper stocks for the Canon driver. If you wanted to see the Lab plot for that particular stock, open the ColorSync application and select the Profiles pane. If you then expand the Other entry you will see all the profiles for the default paper stocks for your iP4600 and their respective color gamuts.

If you then wanted to check which paper stock matched the code names, such as SP, MP and PR, you could select to print from an application and open the Color Matching menu. If you then set the option to ColorSync and leave the Profile set to Automatic, then open the Quality & Media menu and select Photo Paper Plus Glossy and then switch the menu back to Color Matching, you will notice that there will be writing under the Profile menu, stating the profile used - in this case SP2.

If these default values are not delivering the color output you want, then I suggest you set the Color Matching menu to Canon Color Matching and then use the Color Options menu to tweak the Magenta and Cyan values to boost the greens and reduce the reds.

Note that you should also set your application to let the printer manage the color.

Pahu

I think that this link will answer your question and explain the changed situation in Snow Leopard:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/8641.html

Colorsync now means color management is handled by the application and Canon Color Matching means handled by the print driver.

So, when using Photoshop and you want to print without any color management, select "No Color Management" in Photoshop and then in the print driver "Color Matching" tab, Colorsync will be marked, but grayed out and the "Color Options" tab will also be grayed out. With these settings you will print with color management disabled as you require.

If you are using Datacolor PrintFIX PRO I got some great support from the Datacolor people and they told me that the solution if Colorsync is not grayed out, as is the case with this particular program, is to select "Colorsync", then choose "other profiles" and then choose "Generic RGB". They tested all of this out and told me that it works perfectly with Snow Leopard and will result in a non color managed print.

Strange that these changes have not been more widely publicized. Hope this helps.