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I've been printing photos through Lightroom CC making calendars on my Canon Pro 1 using double sided matt paper and managing the colour with icc profiles. All has gone well for 30+ prints until today when I tried to print some photos from a different older Lightroom catalog ( for photos from 2014 and earlier - I had to upgrade it to the current CC version first). The photos came out faded, completely lacking in saturation and contrast.
1. I'm on a Mac so double profiling is not possible.
2. I did a nozzle check - all fine
3. At first I was printing from a Tif file. Not knowing if colour space could be an issue, I exported it as a jpeg ensuring it was sRGB and printed again - same faded result.
4. I noticed it was 8 bit instead of 16 and 360ppi instead of 300ppi as I had been successfully doing from my other catalog. Reprinted with these settings - still faded.
5. Tried printing a different photo ( a raw fie) from this same older catalog with same icc profile, same 16 bit, 300ppi and paper as had been successful on the newer catalog - also faded.
6. Imported the jpegs into my first more recent catalog and reprinted - they were fine. Two of the ink cartridges were reading low ink, but this success made me think this was not the culprit.
So, can anyone tell me what I am missing? I can get round the issue, but I'd like to understand why they are always faded from the older catalog. Some other setting??
I'm wondering if it's somehow not finding the icc profile. I didn't try restarting Lightroom with the older catalog.
1. I'm on a Mac so double profiling is not possible.
2. I did a nozzle check - all fine
3. At first I was printing from a Tif file. Not knowing if colour space could be an issue, I exported it as a jpeg ensuring it was sRGB and printed again - same faded result.
4. I noticed it was 8 bit instead of 16 and 360ppi instead of 300ppi as I had been successfully doing from my other catalog. Reprinted with these settings - still faded.
5. Tried printing a different photo ( a raw fie) from this same older catalog with same icc profile, same 16 bit, 300ppi and paper as had been successful on the newer catalog - also faded.
6. Imported the jpegs into my first more recent catalog and reprinted - they were fine. Two of the ink cartridges were reading low ink, but this success made me think this was not the culprit.
So, can anyone tell me what I am missing? I can get round the issue, but I'd like to understand why they are always faded from the older catalog. Some other setting??
I'm wondering if it's somehow not finding the icc profile. I didn't try restarting Lightroom with the older catalog.