HalClark

Hello Chris B. I left out one important item, I am using a Mac Pro (6 core Intel Xeon E5, 32 GB RAM, 2 AMD FirePro D500 GPUs) and macOS Mojave (10.14.6), not Windows. So the Windows profile printing issue noted above (and my issue printing the test files) also applies to the Mac version of Affinity Photo as well (I am hoping this will help the team figure the issue out since it must be common software shared between the Windows and Mac versions). I also have added captures of the Soft Proof for the two ICC profiles I used, and the scans of the printed results. NOTE the blue border on the printout of the RR Paper Canvas profile and the gray border on the RR Paper Canvas SoftProof.

Hello Chris B. Affinity provides 2 excellent color management videos that do a great job of explaining how to handle and/or modify the colors on screen and if the image is being posted to the web. What is missing (and what I understand this post is about) is the handling of how to color match the printed image to the display image. Many of us who are long time users of Photoshop (I no longer use it, I do not rent anything) and print on surfaces that may not be the surfaces that the printer manufacturer sells ( i.e. I use Strathmore Watercolor paper, not Epson or Canon watercolor paper) know that many of those surfaces have been icc profiled by the paper manufacturer or make their own profiles, as I do. All we need to understand (and the person who has made the training videos for Affinity Photo would be perfect to help us understand) is how to apply our paper profiles during the printing process. It needs to be done within Affinity Photo because almost every printer manufacturer does not give you the option of adding your own icc profiles to the printer driver. I believe this post has uncovered the need, I am looking for guidance on how to handle printing with custom (i.e not from the printer manufacturer) icc profiles during printing. I have purchased the Workbook, hoping it was addressed in it, and it is not, and I have reviewed the Affinity Photo videos as well. Thanks for the help Hal P.S. I also have the equipment to make icc profiles for my DLSR, Scanner, Monitors and the 20 different surfaces I print on, so this is a major stumbling point for me and I currently take the image from Affinity and load it into Photoshop CS6 (the last version you could purchase) and use CS6 to print, but CS6 is 32 bit software and it is preventing me from upgrading my system. Update: using the test files in this post and a couple of my papers and profiles, I have found that one of the profiles prints properly (i.e. matches how the profile looks in soft proof) while the other has a definite color shift where the gray border and other gray areas end up blue. I have screen captures of the images and soft proofs, did not attach them since without scans of the prints they would not provide any real information, other than to show both soft proofs have gray where it is supposed to be.