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I got myself a little Canon Selphy CP1500 for printing 4x6 photos. They come out pretty OK, except by default the prints lose a lot of detail in dark areas, shadows come out basically black. My monitors are not calibrated but viewing the images on PC/phone/tablet they all look in the same ballpark, so it seems like the problem lies with going from image file to print. I don't know really anything about printing and I'm not expecting miracles from this cheapo dye sublimation thing, but how can I get started trying to more consistently transfer what I see on the screen to what I get in my prints? I want to use it as a snapshot printer so it would be ideal not to have to go through 3 or 4 iterations each time to get an acceptable image. I do have some shots I'd like to have enlarged for my walls, so maybe learning about colour management now will pay dividends when I'm spending real money on bigger prints. e: I'm mainly using DxO Photolab 6, but also sometimes Affinity Photo, if there is software-specific advice.
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Dec 6, 2023 15:36
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I downloaded some random ICC profile for the CP1200 and applying it in Photolab and letting it do colour management rather than the printer does give me results more like what I see on screen (https://zm-color.com/post/2020/05/13/for-canon-selphy-cp-series-sample-icc-profile/). I have no idea if this is a smart way to go, but Canon does not seem to release their own ICCs for this printer. I don't have a colorimeter and while I could probably borrow a spectrophotometer from work that seems like a deep rabbit hole.
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