Printing using Printer ICC managed by software works for images with embedded ICC only

[dfbosche]

Hi,

when loading an image which has no embedded color profile, Affinity Photo (AP) will automatically assign sRGB to it and shows the little message. If the image without any further manipulation then is printed using the printer profile ICC managed by software, the result will be like as if not the printer ICC but sRGB was used: wrong printing result.

If instead the same photo is manually assigned to sRGB via AP´s document menue and then exported with embedded sRGB Profile, closed and then reloaded (now not showing the automatic profile assignment message) it will then be printed correctly with the printer profile ICC in the correct colors.

Why would this not be possible in the first case without having to manually assign the sRGB profile, save and reload?

For me this feels like a bug.

Thanks and regards, Dieter

Edited April 4, 2022 by dfbosche
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[dfbosche]

As opposed to my original post I found out that export and reload is not required. Printing correct colours works if the image, which has no profile embedded, is assigned manually with sRGB and then printed using the printers ICC without exporting first. However because AP would have assigned sRGB to the image automatically as it says in its pop up massage when freshly loaded, manual assignation of the same again should be not necessary.  Still feels like a bug.

[Lee D]

Hi @dfbosche To confirm your workflow:

1, You're opening an image that has no colour profile assigned

2, Affinity Photo assigned the default sRGB profile to the image as indicated

3, You print this image from within Affinity Photo, settings are set for the app to manage colour.

The printout is not as expected, colours are out (Remember unless your system has been fully colour calibrated, screen and print colours will never be exact)

If you repeat the above, but this time after the app assigns the default profile you then manually assigned the same sRGB profile to the image and then print. The printout colours are more closely matched.

[dfbosche]

Hi Lee D, my printer and screens are calibrated (Spyder Print and i1Display Pro) and colors match if I compare print to screen.

Yes, this describes my workflow exactly.