Windows 10: Color Management for Print Drivers

Discus and support Color Management for Print Drivers in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; Greetings, Color Management is part of Windows and I've noticed that I can override settings for print drivers, essentially giving them a CMYK(.icc)... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by Shaareable, Nov 24, 2018.

  1. Color Management for Print Drivers


    Greetings,


    Color Management is part of Windows and I've noticed that I can override settings for print drivers, essentially giving them a CMYK(.icc) and ProPhotoRGB profile.


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    I tweaked in EFI Fiery a CMYK profile so that the curves were on crack cocaine and would result in visibly disturbing and unnatural colors.


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    Having done that I was under the presumption that the print driver would convert a tiff in a pdf according to the CMYK profile I had assigned however viewing that Pdf it didn't appear to have done so according to the CMYK ICC profile.. but instead according to ProPhoto RGB profile (.icm).

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    The reason why I am trying to understand how this work is that I am hoping I could profile the printer and assign the ICC profiles for different papers in windows and selectively use the correct ICC profile: this would allow one to profile a digital printer even if this printer doesn't have a dedicated RIP/DFE.


    At this point, it appears that the print driver uses the RGB profile whether or not the content is RGB or CMYK.

    Is this normal?


    How to get the driver to convert according the icc cmyk profile?


    Thank you for your time!


    Antoine

    :)
     
    Shaareable, Nov 24, 2018
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  2. No color management in print dialogue box

    Why is the critical step of removing all old printer drivers (Step 5) in the Printui dialogue the same as Step 6 right clicking the printer in Devices and Printers to delete it and restart PC?

    After you install the printer software in Print 8 you did a lot of other things with a Desktop app that are not in the list and unneeded. Why were these necessary instead of just selecting a .pdf document to print and trying it?

    The reason I ask is that I've suggested these steps countless times and they have always worked if only they are followed, not adding a bunch of steps at the end.

    I hope this helps.
     
    Greg Carmack - Windows MVP, Nov 24, 2018
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  3. Color Management

    Issue: we are working with a Xerox 7830 and when we print certain corporate logos it will turn out another color.

    Fix: Opened up the print driver properties/ Color Management Tab/ Color Management button / Selected the Printer as device / Advanced tab / under Windows Color System Defaults / device profile i changed to "LCD color management and conversion."

    Result: Printed correctly. Now i am trying to push those settings out on the driver and other PC's do not have this option to select.

    Question: Is there a way to load the device profiles for color management? If so, can we load it on the WIN server and it would replicated down to the users?
     
    Corey Waldner, Nov 24, 2018
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  4. Color Management for Print Drivers

    Color printing

    Although printer states it's printing in color, and it shows up in print preview, pages are only printed in black and white. This started with Windows 10. It was working fine prior to that. Any suggestions?
     
    MaggieCarulo, Nov 24, 2018
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