Trouble with colour transitions in printed images (Canon Pro 1000)

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Hi printer gurus,

I'm sure this is a common and easily resolved issue, but I'm having trouble finding and answer to it.

I'm trying to print a specific picture with a sky which shows very vibrant colours that transition across the print. However once printed it shows a very pronounced line where the printer appears to have trouble rendering the correct colours/transitions.

Is this a colour space, driver issue or something entirely unrelated? If anybody knows of a way to sort it out I'll be forever in your debt!
 

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Could be JPEG artefaction. If you've saved the image and reopened a few times (as a JPEG), especially at lower qualities, you can introduce and compound the problem. To reduce the problem, do any intermediate saves as .psd or another uncompressed file type and do the final save at the highest quality possible.
 
Thanks for the replies guys :), To answer some of your questions I'm printing from a tif file and haven't exported to jpeg other than to view it on my iPad. The print outs are coming from LR directly rather than Print Studio Pro which I've admittedly never tried. I'm using the XPS driver for the printer rather than the standard (could be a problem here?) and am printing using ICC profiles provided by the paper manufacturer.
 
Mark_D said:
Thanks for the replies guys :), To answer some of your questions I'm printing from a tif file and haven't exported to jpeg other than to view it on my iPad. The print outs are coming from LR directly rather than Print Studio Pro which I've admittedly never tried. I'm using the XPS driver for the printer rather than the standard (could be a problem here?) and am printing using ICC profiles provided by the paper manufacturer.
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I had a long chat with a Canon print Specialist at last years Photography Show, and he recommended always using Print Studio Pro
 
I had lots of problems with a pro 100s causing colour casts. The only thing that fixed it was using the Print Studio Pro addin. Hopefully that will solve the problem for you.
 
Your printing settings could be everything to do with it. I print from Photoshop but will presume Lightroom can be set up just as well. You obviously want 16bit out put both in printer control panel and your software, as well as a correct media selected at highest quality and right ICC profile.
Don't forget not all papers are made equal so to be sure try it (small) on something like Baryta or premium glossy from the likes of Hahnemuhle or Canson.

Obviously I would double check printhead test patterns, your monitor calbration, and notably that you are using "Softproofing" on Lightroom.
 
So very embarrassingly it turned out to be something much more simple than anything we’ve discussed here. The printer as it turns out was faithfully reproducing what was shown in the image! The sky was so naturally vibrant so it didn’t take much of a bump in the sliders to introduce a very subtle artefact that I hadn’t noticed until the first print. Rookie error that took me FAR longer than it should have done to figure out :LOL:

Thanks very much for all your input guys!
 
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